Evil of AccomplishmentThe Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, tells the sordid story of Pecola, a young girl of color, as she struggles to achieve beauty, praying desperately to have blue eyes. Describing the errors of the storybook family, Morrison weaves the stories of the town's many residents of color into the true definition of a family. Through intense metaphor and emotion, the ugliness of racial tension overtakes the search for beauty and, therefore, the search for love. Pecola, a twelve-year-old girl from a broken home, is first introduced when she is sent to live with Claudia (the narrator). and his family. Her father, Cholly Breedlove, a drunk, burned down the family home and is now in prison. Here we see Pecola's desire for beauty and her obsession with Shirley Temple and dolls with blond hair and blue eyes as a common desire of young black women. This desire for beauty is actually a desire for love, that love and adoration that they see attributed to living “dolls.” [I wanted] to discover what eluded me: the secret of the magic they weaved on others. What made people look at them and say "Awwwww", but not for me? The shift of black women's eyes when they passed them in the street, and the possessive gentleness of their touch when they handled them (15). Children, so accustomed to being beaten or whipped, only remember this treatment. They have never felt the warmth or love they believe they receive from white children. This pain leads them to believe that it is because of their color, their dark skin, their dark eyes and their "wooly" hair, that they are not considered beautiful, and from these thoughts, they begin to hate the beauty of white children. . Living in fear of her parents, Pecola becomes introverted and learns, like many other children, to manage pain. “[Mama’s song] left me with the conviction that pain was not only bearable, it was sweet” (18). An undertone of sexual fantasies and discovery is present throughout the novel, as many characters are the product of loveless relationships. Men particularly seek passion in young girls, which ultimately leads to the confrontation between Pecola and Cholly, during which he rapes and impregnates her still developing body. It is after this immoral act that Pecola seeks the answer to her prayers at Soaphead Church..