While I was reading the book, I did not see a lot of word for love. I deeply read something about love in the summer section at the last pages. My presentation topic was the same as this blog's topic, so I searched a lot about love.
Many of us blame on Cholly when we read the book. Because there was no excuse for his action. I guess everyone will agree with me. But while I was searching about love, I found different things about it.
Firstly, I wanted to use a quotation.
"Love is never any better than the lover. Wickled people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid love stupidly but the love of a free man is never safe."
This two sentence tells a lot about Morrison's point of view, I guess. If we evaluate Cholly's offence, firstly, we consider his past. He had a childhood. When he was 4 days old, his mother left him and ran away. His aunt Jimmy brang him up. When he found his father, he did not know him and his mother. When he was at his young ages, 2 white men saw him in a sexual relationship with a girl and forced him to continue. And this caused hating women, sex, white people... The became a violent man. Many of these reasons are considerable because all of them had an important role his life. Although there is no excuse for his offence but as Morrison wrote violent people love violently. As we can see in the book he was not a normal husband, father or man. He was alcoholic and in the past he killed 2 white men. Actually, he felt that he was free for everything and this freedom is not safe not only for himself, but also the others.
Monday, May 24, 2010
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Cholly's life is really as equally tragic as Pecola's, even though he is the perpetrator. Violence begets violence. The real evil in the story is racism.
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