Everyone has a past. The things many people go through, including the life choices made, makes them who they are later on in life. At least that’s what everyone is told. However, what happened in the past shouldn’t induce your life choices in the future. For Cholly Breedlove, in The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison his incapability of being able to love others in the past, created challenges for him in the future. Cholly Breedlove's lack of knowledge on various life lessons leads him to rape his own daughter, twice. Cholly not only has his innocence stolen from him, he also has to come of age and be on his own at the age of thirteen. Is that a good enough excuse for what he did? Toni Morrison’s depiction of Cholly fails to deliver the non-emotional
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Taunted because her dark skin and she prayed daily for blue eyes. Blue eyes that would make her beautiful. Pecola wasn’t loved, not even by her own mother, whom, when she told Cholly raped her, she refused to believe her. However, the second time Cholly, rapes Pecola she chooses not to tell her mother, but she doesn't claim to fight against him neither. Although Pecola states that it was horrible both times, perhaps, she didn’t fight back because Cholly made her feel beautiful. Made her feel wanted, that feeling of being rejected by everyone was no longer there. After both incidents Cholly, runs away because, Pecola is pregnant, as did his father when his mom was pregnant. Cholly wasn’t able to stick around to see what he’s done and how he’s affected Pecola, to the point where she’s gone mad. Pecola, after losing her baby, went insane, to the point where she believed she had blue eyes and discusses them with a person she has created in her mind. “Ever since I got my blue eyes, she look away from me all the time. Do you suppose she’s jealous too?” There is no evidence supporting Cholly being drunk the second time or of him being in an insane state of mind, he was lucid and was even able to finish. At this point, his actions can be considered
Taunted because her dark skin and she prayed daily for blue eyes. Blue eyes that would make her beautiful. Pecola wasn’t loved, not even by her own mother, whom, when she told Cholly raped her, she refused to believe her. However, the second time Cholly, rapes Pecola she chooses not to tell her mother, but she doesn't claim to fight against him neither. Although Pecola states that it was horrible both times, perhaps, she didn’t fight back because Cholly made her feel beautiful. Made her feel wanted, that feeling of being rejected by everyone was no longer there. After both incidents Cholly, runs away because, Pecola is pregnant, as did his father when his mom was pregnant. Cholly wasn’t able to stick around to see what he’s done and how he’s affected Pecola, to the point where she’s gone mad. Pecola, after losing her baby, went insane, to the point where she believed she had blue eyes and discusses them with a person she has created in her mind. “Ever since I got my blue eyes, she look away from me all the time. Do you suppose she’s jealous too?” There is no evidence supporting Cholly being drunk the second time or of him being in an insane state of mind, he was lucid and was even able to finish. At this point, his actions can be considered