So there's this girl called Claudia. She's kinda like the typical prodigy that sees everything differently. You can tell this by the way she narrates the events. She seems so naive and questions everything like a child would, but her questions are often about humanity at its worst, without her knowing of course. Poor kiddo.
You know how Harry Potter's family thought he was weird and dumb and he turned out to be wizard Gandhi? Well, this book is kinda like this, except for the magic. Claudia is a special/weird nine-year-old, African American that narrates her tough present (and past?) through the Great Depression. I imagine you can imagine what she imagined at that time. She lived it tough and she didn't know that until she compared her Great Depression reality with the one she lives in the present. The Bluest Eye, is told from that perspective: a tormented past.
While in some parts the book addresses innocent, casual everyday life situations, in other parts, it introduces dark topics such as oppression, fear and inequality.
Although the way Ms. Morrison writes at the beginning doesn't continue, there is still an infant-innocent-like tone going on, which, I think, is there to create empathy. Also, let's have in mind that we read whatever Toni wants us to read. Therefore, the way she writes tells us something about her that she wants us to know but can't directly say.
There is much more to this novel than just a little innocent girl trying to understand the world.
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