Pecola, we are told in the prelude, will be raped by her father by novel's end. The novel's focus, however, is on a girl named Pecola Breedlove. Claudia MacTeer lives with her parents and her sister in the humble MacTeer family house in Lorrain, Ohio. This device allows Morrison to employ a reflective adult narrator without losing the innocent perspective of a child. At the time that the main events of the plot take place, Claudia is a nine-year-old girl. The first section of each season is narrated by Claudia MacTeer, a woman whose memories frame the events of the novel. The four larger units begin with "Autumn" and end in "Summer," with each unit being split into smaller sections. She also co-wrote children's books with her son, Slade Morrison, including The Big Box, The Book of Mean People, and Peeny Butter Fudge.The Bluest Eye is split into an untitled prelude and four large units, each named after a season. She has won several awards including the National Book Critics Circle Award for Song of Solomon in 1977, the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved in 1988, the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012, the Edward MacDowell Medal for her outstanding contribution to American culture in 2016, and the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction in 2016. Her other works include Sula, Tar Baby, Jazz, Paradise, Love, A Mercy, Home, and God Help the Child. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970.
She taught at several universities including Texas Southern University, Howard University, and Princeton University. in English from Howard University in 1953 and a master's degree in English from Cornell University in 1955 with her thesis on the theme of suicide in modern literature. Toni Morrison was born in Lorain, Ohio on February 18, 1931.
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