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Through the novel’s narrative of shame, invisible collapse, and “psychological murder,” it explores why racial beauty is denied and how outside standards of inferiority become internal truths. 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While reading you will encounter\ntext that runs all together this is not a scanning error or an\nediting error rather it is the way the book was written.\nYou will also notice numerus grammatical and spelling errors\nagain not all of these are in fact errors but the way in which\nthe characters speak.\nFinally this book is for mature readers. It is explicit and has\nsubject matter that some may find offensive, however it is\nrealistic and portrays a life that most of us cannot understand\nor relate to.\nTo the two who gave me life\nand the one who made me free\nForeword\nThere can’t be anyone, I am sure, who doesn’t know what it feels like to be disliked, even rejected, momentarily or for sustained periods of time. Perhaps the feeling is merely indifference, mild annoyance, but it may also be hurt. It may even be that some of us know what it is like to be actually hated— hated for things we have no control over and cannot change. When this happens, it is some consolation to know that the dislike or hatred is unjustified—that you don’t deserve it. And if you have the emotional strength and/or support from family and friends, the damage is reduced or erased. We think of it as the stress (minor or disabling) that is part of life as a human. When I began writing The Bluest Eye, I was interested in something else. Not resistance to the contempt of others, ways to deflect it, but the far more tragic and disabling consequences of accepting rejection as legitimate, as selfevident. I knew that some victims of powerful self-loathing turn out to be dangerous, violent, reproducing the enemy who has humiliated them over and over. Others surrender their identity; melt into a structure that delivers the strong persona they lack. Most others, however, grow beyond it. But there are some who collapse, silently, anonymously, with no voice to express or acknowledge it. They are invisible. The death of self-esteem can occur quickly, easily in children, before their ego has “legs,” so to speak. Couple the vulnerability of youth with indifferent parents, dismissive adults, and a world, which, in its language, laws, and images, re-enforces despair, and the journey to destruction is sealed. The project, then, for this, my first book, was to enter the life of the one least likely to withstand such damaging forces because of youth, gender, and race. Begun as a bleak narrative of psychological murder, the main character could not stand alone since her passivity made her a narrative void. So I invented friends, classmates, who understood, even sympathized, with her plight, but had the benefit of supportive parents and a feistiness all their own. Yet they were helpless as well. They could not save their friend from the world. She broke. The origin of the novel lay in a conversation I had with a childhood friend. We had just started elementary school. She said she wanted blue eyes. I looked around to picture her with them and was violently repelled by what I imagined she would look like if she had her wish. The sorrow in her voice seemed to call for sympathy, and I faked it for her, but, astonished by the desecration she proposed, I “got mad” at her instead.\nUntil that moment I had seen the pretty, the lovely, the nice, the ugly, and although I had certainly used the word “beautiful,” I had never experienced its shock—the force of which was equaled by the knowledge that no one recognized it, not even, or especially, the one who possessed it. It must have been more than the face I was examining: the silence of the street in the early afternoon, the light, the atmo-sphere of confession. In any case it was the first time I knew beautiful. Had imagined it for myself. Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do. The Bluest Eye was my effort to say something about that; to say something about why she had not, or possibly ever would have, the experience of what she poss","cbCaiuYhcewn0qPm","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuYhcewn0qPm","docx",212083,79,"English","# Foreword\n## Being disliked and hated\n## Rejection as a learned legitimacy\n## Self-esteem collapse in children\n## The novel’s origin and inspiration\n## Beauty, racial self-loathing, and reclaiming identity","[{\"question\":\"What does the foreword say about the feeling of being disliked or rejected?\",\"answer\":\"It describes how dislike or hatred can stem from indifference, mild annoyance, or deep hatred over things people cannot change. 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