THE BLUEST EYE, A NOVEL by TV* m - * - i urn ivi urrisun (Holt, RineHart, Winston, 1970) Tucked away on the fiction shelves of East Winston Library is a seldom-read book by a talented young black female author, Toni Morrison. This story is told in the first person by ten-year-bid Claudia who learns much about life, love and pain during the early 1940's. Claudia and her sister Frieda belong to a staunch loving family who, although of moderate means, providing strong guidance and values for its members. Living in Lorain, Ohio, they encounter the agony of integrated schools, the arrogrance associated with beauty and mulatto-skin, the torment of vengeful young boys and envious young girls, the world of prostitution, the hypocrisy of self-proclaimed Christians and the consequences of alcoholism and incest. Quiet as it's kept, there were no marigolds in the fall of 1941. We thought at the time that it was because Pecola was going to have her father's baby that the marigolds did not grow. Twelve-year-old Pecola was not pretty by any means. Her family was poor and her mother found pleasure in giving time and attention to the wealthy white family for which she worked. Time and attention which she failed to give to her own. Cholly, Pecola's father, could only find solace in the bottle. And that day when he came home drunk and saw Pecola standing at the sink scratching her leg with her iooi, it reminded mm ot when he first saw her mother sitting on the fence with her back to him scratching her leg with her foot. At that moment Cholly loved Pecola. He wanted to give her something of himself, he wanted to give her-love in the only way he knew how Out of the union grew a seed. Claudia and Frieda thought that if they planted a seed in the ground and they planted it deep enough, Pecola's baby would live. It was a long time before my sister and I admitted to ourselves that no green was going *. .U> spring-'from-our seeds.I had planted them too far down in the earth. It never occured to either of us that the earth itself might have been unyielding. Cholly is dead, Pauline continues to work for the white folks and Pecola's only consolation is in having blue eyes. She always felt that if she had blue eyes people would like her, that she would be pretty. And now she walks around talking to herself and marvelling to herself about her beauty which comes from the bluest eyes. ?New KlughrOld C!n i - OUpiCllICS 1 up \^Ilc 1. The original Supremes 3. Earl Klugh fans, if you are back on the charts once loved Heart String,then, his more with re-release of latest album, 44Dream some of their most famous ^ ~ ,, /f. , A ... ,-? utr. j Come True, (United Arhits on a 12-mch LP entitled 4imn n, I,,, ? r. < f^B ^ r*7l ' ' I ? 1 i I * V , A I ' V ' ') I c r M ' Top Art Students Winston-Salem State University seniors Jay Carlton, Gene Dougtas and Spergeon Thompson, all oj Winston-Salem recently received certificates of recognition from The Links, Inc. The three art majors were cited as outstanding students in their discipline. The students .were recommended for the - award by the faculty of the Art Department at wssu. ^ v ItAfM I "> . i *Art Is9 Winners iter, seated, won the firstp/ace in the spring competition of tl fter-school prog/am. Next to him are sixth place winner Soni winner, Deborah ChadwJck. Other, participants.are: Deborah Fe phanie Jackson, Kevin Williams and Anthony Burns. Winne 1 Twin City Art League for their work, which has been posted c n's room at the library. t look what ifl aon nowt V VCU1\XU. XX ke a lot of money to earn this rate and yield. But lat's more, this high rate remains the same for the ??? full term of the certlficateT And your money's safe, since we're a member of the FDTCwhTcTi Insures your deposits to $100,000. I So, if you want to make . T* a . i $500 work harder than you '/ yield on our Thirty Month v. .* i *1 ; Is available'lor $500 or Wer thought possible, Stop om daily compounding of ^ soon. At the bank that wants to be the best in the ^ ^ fW neighborhood. D.50% I HCH3 ibsfo^bo.'' interest penalty for tnr'y ,v thdrawa' fnr h iepcs tor reared to S100 000 by fD'C Pi'iSF WKHjm mr\ hmmuv \ fifemmmMw The Chronicle, Saturday, May 17, 1980 - Page 11 ? $? :r f hel Mnm Ritfm. ..' FRIDAY THFJLM,. -AX*!- S-S 15 7 9 R M F 7:159:15 R j $000 S-S 3:15-5:15-7:15-9:15 99xxv ..., ^ 5?| THE FIFTH FLOOR *1 S-S 2:00-3:45-5:30-7:15-9:00 R IcilMMIT rARI B CCOUI/?d \ The Deer Hunter \ ! A powerful provocative saga of . V \^P^Bw|||&' M Ainencans in conflict in Vietnam? \ B B U and at ^ome Robert DeNiro. Meryl \ B b b^P^B^IP^ ^tteep star Winner of 5 Academy \b b lHflS "" ' Awards, including Best Picture1 \ B 1 HBO People Dos t Miss Oat \ 1 1 Greatest Sports \l ^ES