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Originally Posted by Inner Dirt
The parents are wacko because they don't want their children reading this type content?
“The Bluest Eye” contains several instances of characters fantasizing and experiencing incest, rape, and pedophilia. Morrison spends considerable time with many scenes intimately describing sex with children.
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I just read The Bluest Eye. There is literally no pornography in that book. There are a few descriptions of sex, of rape and even incest, but those are brief and use no profanity. And no descriptive words. They are certainly not titillating. As for many scenes intimately describing sex with children, there are two. One is the scene where Pecola is raped by her father. A terrible thing but not described in any great detail. In fact if you weren’t paying attention you could miss it. The only other references to pedophilia was the young girls-I believe they were early adolescents-warning each other to avoid being alone with a schetchy character. And a letter written by that character in which he talks about some things he has done-again giving few details.
I won’t, but I could give some examples of what pornography is. It is nothing like what is in this book.
Also, I thought the big deal was that these books were available to children. That they were in elementary school libraries. They are not. They are all in High School libraries. High School students need to know about these subjects. It’s not grooming; it’s preparing them to protect themselves.
