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Abuse in The Bluest heart   The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, is about an eleven year old girl, Pecola, who is maltreat by almost everyone in her life.  Every day she encounters racism, not equitable from the white multitude, but also from the African American people. In her eyes, her flake is too ghastly, and the color of her skin makes her inferior to everyone else. The color of her skin makes her echo that she is ugly. She feels that she can overcome this if she can get dingy eyes. Pecola thinks that if she can be like the blue eyed Shirley Temple, everyone will love her. Pecola wishes to have blue eyes because she feels they will make her loved and accepted by the people in her life.   Pecola is abused almost by everyone in her life. integrity day, she goes to Geraldines firm. Geraldine is a middle-class African American woman. Junior, Geraldines son, harasses Pecola by throwing his cat around and in the end kills it. When Geraldine walks in, she says , Get out. You nasty little black boeuf. Get out of my house(93). Geraldine thinks that her son does not kill the cat. She trust him more than Pecola. Pecola thinks that Geraldine called  her nasty because of her appearance, dark skin. Also, calling an eleven year old girl a bitch is like killing committee a crime. A little girl does not really know what that word means, but she know its horrible.  universe called a black beach, by an African American soulfulness hurts even more than being called by a white person because they be the same race.  They go through the same types of things because of their skin color. They are suppose to support each other. This makes Pecola feel more ashamed of herself and penury to change her appearance to be accepted and trusted by Geraldines .   Her family do by her the same way. Pecolas dad raped her. Mrs. Breedlove, her mother, did not pay attention to her. One day, Pecola decides to visit her mom at work. Mrs. Breedlove was a nanny for this white girl. Pecola circumstantially knocks over a blueberry pie. Mrs. Breedlove says, Crazy fool... my floor, mess... look what you... work...get on out. Hush, baby, hush. herald her. Oh, lord, look at your dress.