Shayna's+reflection+on+American+beauty

America has created an image that all of its citizens have to live up to, and is being instilled in us at a very young age, so that it eventually becomes a norm to live up to, and is soon a part of us. I used a variety of images of models and celebrities in an effort to demonstrate the standard that has been created that Americans now strive to obtain. We are being showed who is beautiful and cute, which is a problem, because only a small percentage of the population actually looks like that. People then start to become concerned with their image and how they look, and do everything they can to reach their goal to look that these women. Toni Morrison also illustrates this in the Bluest Eye with Pecola who desperately want blue eyes so that she can be beautiful. By being cute, she will finally have friends and be recognized by the rest of the population, because we have created a society where the prettier or thinner you are, the more you are worth.