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Thursday, February 14, 2019

The Character of Cholly in The Bluest Eye Essay -- Bluest Eye Essays

The Character of Cholly in The Bluest Eye   Morrison has divided her portrayal of a fictional t take in of blacks, which suffers from alienation and subjugation, into four seasons.  I believe that her fundamental message is to illustrate the reality of manners travails the certain rhythms of blessings and tragedies.  Some blacks understand and acccept this doctrine and Morrisons use of the seasons portrays and echoes the bible verse, To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven(Ec. 3.1).  Perhaps this is a fatalistic approach or as Darrow says,   Man is the product of genetic endowment and environment and that he acts as his machine responds to outside stimuli and nothing else, reckon amply proven by the evolution and history of man.  Every handle of nature and life is a continuous sequence of cause and act (156).    This theory is particularly evident in Morrisons development of Cholly, the man who outrage his daughter.  She could have portrayed him as a degenerate akin to Soaphead, a slimy character, who leaves us with a feeling of revulsion.  Instead, step-by-step, she leads us through Chollys life and experiences so in the end, instead of hating him, we feel his pain.         Cholly is introduced in the first chapter.  He is the father of Pecola.  Because of his actions, the whole family has been put out of their home.  It was a miserable apartment, as ugly in appearance as the family.  Except for Cholly.  In his youthfulness he had been big strong long limbed and full of his own fire.  Now his behavior was his ugliness.  Years of despair, dissipation and... ...ft pregnant with his child, and pushed to madness by these terrible circumstances she finds her beauty in the bluest eye.   I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked for there is a time for every purpose and for eve ry work (Ec. 17).  Morrison draws a clement picture of Cholly.  She blurs the reality and covers him with emotional longing for the love he knew in the past.  Cholly has nothing more to lose.  His life is a tragedy.   Works Cited Darrow, Clarence.Crime and vacate Will. Introductory Readings in Philosophy. Ed. Marcus G. Singer and Robert R. Ammerman. New York Scribner, 1962.  156-57. Morrison, Toni.  The Bluest Eye. New York compliment 1994. The New Chain Reference record book. Ed. Frank Charles Thompson. Mt. Morris, N.Y Chain Reference Bible Publishing. 1929.

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