It’s well known that no person alive live a perfectly but a 12-year-old who goes through betrayal from every single person she trusted or getting raped and knowing she’s expecting a baby from her own father, is overwhelming. Toni Morrison does exactly that with her character Pecola in The Bluest Eye. The Bluest Eye shows that childhood experiences shape how people become later on in life. They can become abusive, powerless or unwanted just like the people in Pecola’s life who have not only hurt her but traumatized her too.
To Cholly, being a parent means to abuse and show no emotion as he was taught by his former family. He was raised for a short time by his aunt and for a while switched with Blue Jack. As Cholly grows to adulthood, he has …show more content…
She is obsessed with her family's physical appearance because light skinned people are considered white. As a mother and wife she is cold, and feels no true affection for her son Junior, “Geraldine did not allow her baby, Junior, to cry… He was always brushed, bathed, oiled, and shod. Geraldine did not talk to him, coo to him, or indulge him in kissing bouts.” Geraldine wished for her son to be different, she always took good care of him because she wanted him to pass as a white person. Geraldine is disgusted by blacks and wanted them as far away from her and her family, so when she saw Pecola inside her house she quietly showed flipped out showing her true colors, “‘Get out,’ she said, her voice quiet. ‘You nasty little black bitch. Get out of my house.” She mistreated her but Pecola knew she couldn't say anything just listen and obey. Although that wasn't the only time we see people showing their true …show more content…
In The Bluest Eye, we don't see how Pecola life turns out but we do see how all the light in her world suddenly disappeared. Cholly’s childhood shaped him into becoming abusive with everyone around him, ruining his daughter Pecola's life and reputation by raping her and impregnating her. Geraldine was another character that was thought to be more like a white person instead of black even though she had a black blood in her system and her action slowly spread to her only son Junior. Even though Pecola’s life is not fully written out is up to you to write Pecola’s future and how she is affected after the lose her baby and love
To Cholly, being a parent means to abuse and show no emotion as he was taught by his former family. He was raised for a short time by his aunt and for a while switched with Blue Jack. As Cholly grows to adulthood, he has …show more content…
She is obsessed with her family's physical appearance because light skinned people are considered white. As a mother and wife she is cold, and feels no true affection for her son Junior, “Geraldine did not allow her baby, Junior, to cry… He was always brushed, bathed, oiled, and shod. Geraldine did not talk to him, coo to him, or indulge him in kissing bouts.” Geraldine wished for her son to be different, she always took good care of him because she wanted him to pass as a white person. Geraldine is disgusted by blacks and wanted them as far away from her and her family, so when she saw Pecola inside her house she quietly showed flipped out showing her true colors, “‘Get out,’ she said, her voice quiet. ‘You nasty little black bitch. Get out of my house.” She mistreated her but Pecola knew she couldn't say anything just listen and obey. Although that wasn't the only time we see people showing their true …show more content…
In The Bluest Eye, we don't see how Pecola life turns out but we do see how all the light in her world suddenly disappeared. Cholly’s childhood shaped him into becoming abusive with everyone around him, ruining his daughter Pecola's life and reputation by raping her and impregnating her. Geraldine was another character that was thought to be more like a white person instead of black even though she had a black blood in her system and her action slowly spread to her only son Junior. Even though Pecola’s life is not fully written out is up to you to write Pecola’s future and how she is affected after the lose her baby and love