Bluest Eye
The Social Sickness of Lorain
In the novel "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison, the town in which the story takes place has three sexual abusers. The three sexual abusers in the story show the extreme effects of how people deal with racism. How it turns inward and how they blame others in the cycle of oppression. The town toleration of these three characters shows that there is a larger problem with the town's mentality. When you begin to blame the victim of a crime and the one that committed the crime, it shows lack of understanding and responsibility on the town's part. In a way they are each different degrees of the same person.
The first and worst of the sexual offenders is perhaps Pecola's father, Cholly Breedlove. The story starts out with him being knocked unconscious by his wife and it is then we learn about his troubled past. His first sexual experience was the source of a twisted joke and being powerless in this situation he lashes out at people weaker than him......
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