The novel the bluest eye deals with the colour problem in America.

Begin that story of how terrible it must be for an eleven-year-old girl to feel not only ugly within the standards of her environment, but part of a family where none of her members escaped this constant. Unraveling this fabric of events leads the protagonist in a way in which she must endure countless ignominies, goes beyond her skin color, complements her ugliness. Coming from a low-income family, the family background of a father who was abandoned by his mother wrapped in trash, exposed to the mockery of “whites” when he had his first sexual intercourse with a young woman on the day of the funeral. your aunt. A mother with a physical defect, a leg atrophied by a wound from the past and closing the family circle a brother who did not obey the rules of the family and further deepened the already existing hardships.
To submerge in a state of socially inculcated inferiority, the lack of protection of the closest ones who coexist in the deranged world of Pecola, and above all, the immense void that constitutes “not being” starts from nothing. The girl glimpses a reflection of hope before her first menstruation, this event makes her capable of begetting, she can have children, be something more than what she has been up to that moment.