The narrative in The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison is actually a collection of many different voices. The novel shifts between Claudia MacTeer's first-person narrative and an omniscient narrator. At the end of the novel, Claudia's omniscient voice and narration merge, and the reader realizes that this is an older Claudia thinking back to her childhood (Peach 25). Morrison uses multiple narrators to gain more validity for his story. According to Philip Page, even though the voices are divided, they come together to form a whole, and "this broader perspective also includes past and present... as well as Claudia's now adult future" (55). The segment of each of the seasonal sections of the novel begins with Claudia's memories of that season as a young girl. His first-person narration gives a childlike perspective to the story, while the simple sentences echo passages from the primer (Bellamy 22): "Our house is old, cold, and green. At night a kerosene lamp lights a large room. Adults don't talk to us, they give us directions" (10). Linda Wagner sees the order of details in the novel as what a child would choose (Bellamy 22). For example, while some of the novel's key plot elements are saved for the end, such as Pecola's sexual abuse by her father or her slow descent into madness, other relatively less important details are given earlier, such as Pecola ministratin' ( menstruation) for the first time or the incident with Maureen Peal. Yet this childlike perspective is not consistent throughout the novel, as Claudia's perceptions are too often far beyond a child's capabilities (Bellamy 22). Her opening line for “Autumn” is as follows: “The nuns go silent as lust, and the drunken men with so…half of paper…in the ironically named Breedlove family should impregnate her very family." daughter" (Peach 27) and how Claudia and everyone else were also involved in Pecola's tragedy. The three narrators, the younger Claudia, the omniscient voice, and the older Claudia, come together to give a vision of the past, of the present and the future within the novel and increase the validity of the story. As Valerie Smith argues, "the narrative process leads to self-knowledge because it forces acceptance and understanding of the past" (page 55). Bellamy, Maria Rice. “These will speak for themselves”: textual remains and responsibilities in Toni Morrison. Web 23 May 2015. Tony. 1994. The Bluest Eye. New York: Penguin. Peach, Toni Morrison, 1995.