Cholly in "The Bluest Eye"

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This paper discusses how, in the novel "The Bluest Eye," by Toni Morrison, the character Cholly Breedlove is prevented from love and enjoyment throughout his life by being left for dead by his mother, humiliated by white hunters, and ignored by his father. The writer explains how the cumulation of the negative experiences in Cholly's life results in him becoming a broken and unsettled man. He is held back from his potential as a human being and made to feel that there is no place on earth for him.

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"A few days after being born Cholly's mother wrapped him up and left him for dead in a pile of trash. He could have had a family that loved him, and a mother and a father who cared, but instead he was abandoned by both of them. Here the narrator shows how Cholly felt about life after being saved by his Aunt Jimmy "...he wondered whether it would have been just as well to have died there. Down in the rim of a tire under a soft Georgia sky."(133). Cholly was forced to live with the knowledge that his mother didn't love him enough to keep him and that his father didn't care enough to recognize him."

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