Literature has often been used to send a message, a morality to its readers. When freedom of speech was not recognized yet, some writers, like Voltaire or Montesquieu for example, wrote books not only to amuse but also to criticize and make references of the society they lived in. Indeed, during the middle Ages, Renaissance but also during the XXIII century, writers could be sentenced to death if they did not agree with the king's …showed first 75 words of 570 total…

…showed last 75 words of 570 total…many references of society in The Bluest Eyes. While Pecola represents the black community's way of looking at whiteness as superior, Claudia is a message of suffering but also of hope. Toni Morison relates the black people's sentiments at the time through her characters: for example, the fact that Claudia, who expresses her feelings of frustration and jealousy through angriness, finally ends hating herself and her own people, symbolizes the injustice blacks were living in.