Unconfident The Description of Pauline Breedlove, Pecola’s mother .1 Crippled

kill each other. He fought her that way a coward fights a man with feet, the palms of his hands, and teeth 43. Cholly thinks that he is a free man, free but very dangerous. He could act brutally when somebody stands in front of him to stop him doing things. He is free to do whatever he wants. At that time, he is free to drunk and play with women whenever he likes. He is a free man without rules to live in. Cholly represents the negative form of freedom.”{…}Cholly was free. Dangerously free. Free to feel whatever he felt––fear, guilt, shame, love, grief, pity. {…}Cholly was truly free” 159-160. Cholly’s high tempered characteristic can be seen by his reactions when he has a fight with his wife. He beats his wife, and he uses bad words to show his anger. Starting from the beginning of the story, Cholly has burnt down his house and left his family outdoors and nowhere to go. That is why Pecola stays with the MacTeer’s family. {…}but that old Dog Breedlove had burned up his house, gone upside his wife’s head, and everybody, as a result, was outdoors. 17 That old triftling Cholly been out of jail two whole days and ain’t been here yet to see if his own child was ‘live or dead’. 25 Because of his wrong doing, he is put into the jail. After he gets out of the jail, he does not even go to his family to check how his family is and where they live. He goes to the place where no one knows. This reaction shows the result of Cholly’s high-tempered characteristic. He does anything he likes without thinking of the consequences that could give bad effects to his family, especially to his children.

4.1.2.3 Revengeful

Cholly is a person that is full of revenge. When he is fourteen, and for the first time he has sex with a girl named, Darlene. He is caught by two white men who tell him to continue having sex while they are watching. From that moment, he hates the PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI girl because he feels embarrassed by the two white men because of the girl. Cholly feels insulted by the treatment of the two white men. He feels ashamed with Darlene because of the sexual humiliation. “Cholly, moving faster, looked at Darlene. He hated her. He almost wished he could do it––hard, long, and painfully, he hated her so much” 148. Since his childhood, he is already filled his heart with the feeling of hatred and desperation. Since the incident happens with the two white men, Cholly hates white men and in return, he kills three white men. It happens because he is humiliated by two white men in front of the girl he likes when he is fourteen. “He was in time, to discover that hatred of white men- but now. Not in impotence but later, when the hatred could find sweet expression. For now, he hated the one who had created the situation, the one who bore witness to his failure, his impotence” 151. He could go to jail and not feel imprisoned, for he had already seen the furtiveness in the eyes of his jailer, free to say, “No, suh,” and smile, for he had already killed three white men. 159 It is also described in the novel, Cholly hates white men because they humiliate him. Cholly’s action by killing three white men shows that he fills his heart with hatred. This characteristic of Cholly gives bad impact to his children, especially Pecola. The effect of Cholly’s past life gives big contribution to his present life. When he suffers from an unhappy situation, he starts to think of getting revenge and having the hatred in his mind.

4.2 The Influence of Her Parents on Pecola’s Abnormal Behaviors

Hurlock states that there are some determinants which influences one’s behavior. Family is the most important factor that influences one’s behavior 351. Family is defined as a group of people who have relation in blood. Pikunas also states PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI