Jamming to the blues? or to the Bluest eye?

When you listen to the blues, it’s sad, it’s slow, and it wraps you around someone’s story. It’s so beautifully painful. The artist pouring out their heart and soul into the song they have created. Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye is like the blues. It’s a sad slow song that wraps you around someone’s story making you feel the emotions being portrayed but in her own style making sure you know its not you average story. Turning a book into a beautiful blues song.

            The book doesn’t speak of just anyone’s blues there isn’t one person going through a problem the book talks of everyone’s problems. Pecola, Freida, Claudia, Cholly, Mrs. Breedlove and even minor characters like Maureen had their problems reflected in the book. Their problems were not ass bad as Pecolas but they still brought out a sympathetic feeling out of the reader. We have Claudia and who is struggling to embrace her own colors in a way. You can see this in the way she gets upset at the white doll she is given and when Maureen was being put on a pedestal because of her skin tone. I feel like her anger and wanting to hurt people when she was upset was her way in coping with it. In a way I feel like she was having her own struggle even Maureen to me had her own little struggle because it seemed the she couldn’t even realize that she wasn’t white. Lighter than everyone she may be but one of her parents is still black and I feel that she doesn’t accept it. Sometimes when you hear a blues song it doesn’t just talk about that one person it has another party in the song and I feel every character in the book was another party that was added to make the story/song what it was.

            Ultimately though the song comes back to the one person that song or person was talking about. It may go to other topics but the song always comes back to the main point. To me the main point was Pecola because without her there would be no song. Her problems are so severe but it makes people feel better about their selves. It’s like their life may suck but at the end of the day as long as they aren’t Pecola they can survive. And like a blues song the story tries to make a good in that bad,  yes its bad they deserted Pecola and she was treated horribly but it helped others move on with their own lives. So in a way Pecola was a savior to the people.

To Have Flawless Skin is to Serve Ones Country take 2

Beauty is all about outer appearance. So when you have pimples gracing your face you’re not thinking damn I look good today. Your think Oh My Gosh this is gross I need to get rid of it. What is the best thing to use? What about America’s number 1 acne system Proactive!

  When you first look at the ad you see Julianne Hough (who you may or may not know of) an already famous woman who looks perfect. She has pearly white teeth, and nice blonde hair that seems like silk, high nice cheek bones. Her eyebrows are done so beautifully, and nice bright blue eyes staring back at you. After looking at her you think of your own face and think of your own skin it’s probably (no offense) not as flawless (but if it is props to you bro). The ad obviously targets people who feel insecure because of their acne. If she looks like that then the proactive works right.

Then after you see this beautiful lady your eyes roam to the #1 that just can’t get any bolder. It’s telling you its number one it’s going to work after all its number 1 in America. The number one is not only like the boldest thing there it’s also centered meaning they wanted you to see it (just in case you missed the bolding of the number).  And then two other things that pop right at you is free gift but of course the rest of the sentence is smaller because it’s not really free. Free comes with a price of $12. Then lastly you see the Thank you for serving your country. What makes proactive so good that it’s like serving your country. Because its number 1 is that why? Or they might just be adding some random patriotism in there.

I also feel maybe they make the name of the artist in small print so they can try to fool people. Julianne Hough to me isn't all that I would think she’s kind of ordinary. They want her to blend in and seem normal. So it’s like I’m famous but I’m still one of you.

But while looking at this ad it seems we forget that she is famous with money of course her skin is flawless. As a singer she has to maintain her beauty was it actually proactive that made her skin look like this or Photoshop people aren’t really thinking that. They are thinking about the fact that her skin is smooth so it must work. But it doesn’t seem to stop with perfect skin! Look at her she has straight pearly white teach and she’s beautiful. That tells people, hey, you can be beautiful too just use proactive.

This ad reinforces the idea that you beauty is everything. If you have blemishes don’t worry we can fix that. We can make you beautiful again. It’s like having a pimple isn’t normal it’s a disease that needs to be treated and we have the cure. I mean to me that’s what the background kind of gives off a sort of medical like feel. When I saw the #1 in America sign I thought of the doctors gloves because of the color and then the white background reminded me of the jacket. But hey, maybe that’s just me.

Serving ones country by getting rid of acne?

On the ad we have Julianne Hough and already famous woman who look perfect. She has pearly white teeth nice blonde hair that seems like silk high nice cheek bones. Her eyebrows are done so beautifully and nice bright blue eyes staring back at you. The ad is about getting rid of acne. Viewers or people walking by see this flawless skinned woman before them and then think of their own skin problems. The ad obviously targets [people who feel insecure because of their acne. Obviously if she looks like that then the proactive works right.  But we forget that she is famous with money of course her skin is flawless. As a singer she has to maintain her beauty where it was actually proactive that made her skin look like this or Photoshop people aren’t really thinking that. They are thinking about the fact that her skin is smooth so it must work. But it doesn’t seem to stop with perfect skin! Look at her she has straight pearly white teach and she’s beautiful. That tells people, hey, you can be beautiful too just use proactive. Then after you see this beautiful lady your eyes roam to the #1 that just can’t get any bolder. It’s telling you its number one it’s going to work after all its number 1 in America. And then two other things that pop right at you is free gift but then of course the rest of the sentence is smaller because it’s not really free. Free comes with a price of $12. Then lastly you see the Thank you for serving your country. The brand is so good that when you buy it it’s like your serving your country.