Data Collection Child Abuse And Adults’ Failures Found In Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye

physical abuse can be made. Hence, this action can be connected to the theory of Abraham Maslow and Sigmund Freud. Using Maslow’s theory, the beating might come from parents’ depression in fulfilling the biological needs. While using Freud’s theory, the beating might happen because the ego and the superego of the doer are lower than the id. Subsequently, the relation between Child Abuse and Adults’ Failures will be exposed. Quotations from the novel that are underlying the occurrences of the Child Abuse and Adults’ Failures or vice versa will also be provided as supporting ideas. The steps which are going to be used in searching the relation will similar to the steps which are used in finding kind of Child Abuses and Adults’ Failures. Conclusion Interpretation Data Selection Quotations: Child Abuse and Adults’ Failures Analysis Descriptive Qualitive Novel The Bluest Eye Researcher Extrinsic Approach and Literary Psychology Data Selection Quotations: Child Abuse and Adults’ Failures Interpretation Analysis Descriptive Qualitative Conclusion CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS OF CHILD ABUSE AND ADULTS’ FAILURES

4.1 Child Abuse

The Breedloves are a poor black family which is found in The Bluest Eye. There are Cholly Breedlove, Pauline Breedlove, and Pecola Breedlove. Cholly Breedlove is a jobless and drunken father. Pauline Breedlove is a lonely workaholic mother. While Pecola Breedlove is Cholly and Pauline’s daughter who always sees her parents’ fights and is eventually be the object of her parents’ anger and frustration. Child Abuse as a maltreatment towards a child can come from many aspects. In The Bluest Eye, the abuses which are befallen by Pecola are mostly derived from the poverty which is faced by the uneducated parents. These are then creating the disharmony in the family due to the unfulfilled needs. Nonetheless, it is also not apart from the way of how the societies look at the Breedloves and how the Breedloves look at themselves. People always see themselves at the centre stage and so are the Breedloves. The comparison which is made by the majority drives the Breedloves into frustration stage of being how different they are from others. As a family who is living among the whites as the majority, the Breedloves become more conscious about their uniqueness. Being black means they have to be more aware with their social identity which consists of race, gender, academic major, etc. If they want to be respected, they have to break the prejudice which has been set on them. Conversely, being