High-tempered The Description of Cholly Breedlove, Pecola’s father .1 Irresponsible

day her parents will kill the other during the fights, so there will be no fight anymore. Pecola also wishes she would rather die than to see the fights anymore. She suffers because of her parents’ fights. This situation makes Pecola’s feeling unconfident. She sees her friends Claudia and Frieda MacTeer have a good family, but she does not have one. She always sees her parents fight everyday. According to Lidz, the relationship between parents and child is very crucial. If the communication between parents and children is unhealthy, it creates a lot of problems and obstacles in the children’s lives 34. Unfortunately, Pecola experiences the same. Pecola, on the other hand, restricted by youth and sex, experimented with methods of endurance. Though the methods varied, the pain was as consistent as it was deep. She struggled between an overwhelming desire that one would kill the other, and a profound wish that she herself could die 43. The other way for Pecola to deal with her sufferings is wishing herself to disappear. For her, if she disappears, she will not see the fights of her parents. She will not suffer deep pain every time she watches her parents fight. But, every time she tries to disappear, her eyes always remain there. She can never make her eyes disappear. Pecola really wants her eyes to disappear because she does not want to see the fights anymore. If she could just make her eyes disappear, she would not need to see things she does not want to see. So, the only way to escape from her horrible family is to make her eyes disappear. She always fails to make her eyes disappear. Her eyes are always there. “Please, God,” she whispered into the palm of her hand. “Please make me disappear.” She squeezed her eyes shut. Little part of her body faced away, now, slowly, now with a rush. Slowly again. The fingers went, one by one; then her arm disappeared all the way to the elbow. Her feet now. Yes, that was good. The legs all at once. It was hardest above the tights. She had to be real still and pull. Her stomach would not go. But finally it, too, went away. Then her chest, her neck. The face was hard too. Almost done, almost. Only her tights eyes were left. They were always left 45. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI Pecola believes that everything she suffers from is because of her eyes. Her eyes make her isolated from her family, teachers, and classmates. Everybody does not like her because of her eyes. Everybody sees her ugliness and looks down to her because of her eyes. “Try as she might, she could never get her eyes to disappear. So what was the point? They were everything. Everything was there, in them. All of those pictures, all of those faces” 45. According to Erikson, a child like Pecola will begin to understand what is happening in her society and if the child’s needs are not fulfilled in the family, she will feel that something is missing in her life and tries to find her own identity. That is exactly happens to Pecola. She wishes if she could have beautiful eyes, everybody would like her and she will be able to stop her parents’ fights and her family will live happily ever after. She believes that her parents will not fight in front of her beautiful eyes. Pecola also believes that if she has the beautiful eyes, she will be able to see the good things in her life. Because all she wants is to have a good life, but what is happen to her is the opposite. All people around her reject her; even her own parents reject her. Pecola is losing her self-confidence. She unconsciously blames herself for being an Afro-American girl and being ugly, because with this appearance, she suffers bad things on her life. That is why, to escape from her real life, she dreams of having the bluest eye. It had occurred to Pecola some time ago that if her eyes, those eyes that held the pictures, and knew the sights-if those eyes were different, that is to say, beautiful, she herself would be different. Her teeth were good, and at least the nose was not big and flat like some of those who were thought so cute. If she looked different, beautiful, maybe Cholly would be different, and Mrs. Breedlove too. Maybe they’d say, “Why, look at pretty-eyed Pecola. We musn’t do bad things in front of those pretty eyes 46.” It is also described that Pauline does not give enough attention and care to Pecola as she should. She is supposed to be the closest person of Pecola and provides