Black Museum and The Bluest Eye

In Black Museum and The Bluest Eye we see how they want to get in the mind of the viewer or reader and see it through another person’s point of view. In Black Museum they are trying to figure out the feelings of one person and see if another person can experience the same. In The Bluest Eye we are reading the story through a child’s perspective and what experiences are faced. Seeing situations through another point of view helps you connect more to was is being read or viewed. Both of these titles show how even though you can see something through another view it is not always positive. Later on we see how race comes into play throughout both. When it came to Clay the prisoner we see how he was treated badly for a crime he possibly did not commit. This can be compared to a scene in Morrison’s novel. The scene where Pecola was blamed for injuring Junior’s cat just by her appearance. Another comparison between the two would be the abuse of power. In Black Museum this is shown when they consistently shocked Clay. In Morrison’s novel when Rosemary felt that she was above Claudia and Freida just, because she was white and came from a upper class family. Throughout both we see how a course of action needs to be taken in order for something to change. Looking at the video a viewer can imagine how long he had this museum open and how no one saw this as a bad thing. In the end we see how it took the girl which was his daughter to change the whole situation.