Talk:The Bluest Eye

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I disagree. It simply needs to be made into a stub. It's a significant article and at worse should be placed under vfd.Falphin 00:00, 2 May 2005 (UTC)I disagree when they put in that thing about sex! That was just a little to personal!

I don't know of any attempts to ban this book. Someone needs to back that claim up.

The Bluest Eye appears on the ALA's list of most frequently challenged books 1990-2000, see: http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlinks/100mostfrequently.htm It's certainly been challenged multiple times. CKarnstein 21:32, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Info box has been filled out (including cover image), so I removed the info box needed tag --RumiNationZ 03:47, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Also, this page is well-worded and relatively complete, if rather short. I therefore removed the cleanup tag for the time being. --RumiNationZ 03:50, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Shirley Temple's eye color

From the article: "In the story, Pecola drinks out of a cup with Shirley Temple on it since she wanted blue eyes like Shirley Temple and believed drinking from it would turn her eyes blue. In reality, Temple's eyes are actually brown." Why is there a citation needed for this? One only has to look at an image of Shirley Temple, from any point in her life, to see that they are brown. --Glisteningsquid 18:46, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:BluestEyeCover.jpg

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BetacommandBot 02:57, 26 October 2007 (UTC)