The narrative strategies used by the writer in The Bluest Eye

MEG – 06: AMERICAN LITERATURE

ASSIGNMENT 2019 - 2020

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1. Discuss the narrative strategies used by the writer in The Bluest Eye. 

Answer.: Noble prize winner Toni Morrison has achieved a place in the annals of world literature. One of her best-known novels The Bluest Eye has always surprised the critics. The innovation in terms of narrative using different techniques that can be defined as blended narrative has been the concern for her major critics.

The book “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison has various techniques that make the text rich and a perfect example of a role model for all narrative text to come. A lot of what makes The Bluest eye really exemplary is that is has a large variety of techniques that help capture the audience attention as if it they were flies suck in adhesive paper. This text although structured with an exposition, rising action climax and a conclusion to the climax it jumps around between time frames and character perspective giving the audience bits of info little by little just like jigsaw puzzle. For example like every Greek tragedy The Bluest Eye gives the tragedy away in the very beginning without giving the ending away it’s as if the book where to start in the climax jumping back to the exposition continuedly to all the parts of the story; it also intensifies this effect jumping between character narratives.

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