Story Time

Throughout the Bluest Eye, the impact of stories on individuals as well as societies is pivotal to Toni Morrison's style of the novel as a collection of interwoven stories. The power of stories cannot be underestimated in literature or in real life. Riveting stories of the injustice and oppression under a monarch have been used masterfully by generals to stir the souls of soldiers before a battle for freedom. Tales of the brutality of slave-masters have freed even the most bigoted man from his concrete thoughts of superiority to eventually facilitate the escape of runaway slaves. In the present, a time when war is viewed by many as the most efficient solution to disagreements, maybe all we need is a powerful story to promote pacifism.  Start telling stories; Not about the romantic ideals of war, but about the atrocities and suffering that occur too often.