Tone In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

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Tone Piece The tone of the excerpt of The Bluest Eye is a very depressed and serious piece. Toni Morrison develops this tone using diction and figurative language. The excerpt is about a doll and how Toni thinks that dolls are not beautiful and that they are not lovable. The piece gives a very sad tone to the reader facing the real truth about dolls. Toni uses specific word choice to give the reader a depressed and serious piece. She says, “It was a most uncomfortable, patently aggressive sleeping companion” which Toni is explaining how the doll is uncomfortable and not and not a good thing to sleep with which is very negative. She also says, “I was physically revolted and secretly frightened of those round, moronic eyes, the pancake

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