Book Report—tell us about the Morrison book you read. Give us plot details and major characters, but also a spoiler alert if necessary. Draw connections between Morrison’s essay Playing in the Dark and the book you read.

`In the book, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, the story starts with two nine-year-old Claudia, and ten-year-old Frieda MacTeer lives in Ohio. The story’s setting is at the end of the depression, where their parents were more concerned about money than buying everything that their children want. Her dad was also an alcoholic, and her women didn’t care about them. Pecola was admired at Shirley Temple, she believes that if she has white skin and blue eyes, then everyone would love her, and she considers herself as ugly. The plot of The Bluest Eye is focusing on the problems with racism that happen to people of color.
The connections between The Bluest Eye and Playing in the Dark is that both described their character horrific memories and experience, and how discrimination and past experience affect them throughout their life.