The last few chapters I've read were about Pecola's parents. At first it told about her mother, Pauline's childhood and how when she was two a rusty nail went right through her foot leaving her with a crooked, arch less foot. As a child she felt separated and unworthy, she blamed these feelings on her foot. One day after her family had move to Kentucky Pauline was leaning on a fence. She heard someone whistling in the distance. The whistling grew louder but she didn't turn around. She then felt something tickling her foot. She looked down to see Cholly Breedlove tickling her broken foot and kissing her leg, she could not stop laughing. It then goes on to tell about their life together, how they were happy loved each other. Eventually they grew apart, Pauline got lonely and Cholly started drinking and got mean. She tried to leave him but just couldn't do it. She got pregnant twice, when she told Cholly about the first child he was pleased, he drank less and was home more often but that didn't last long. It then went on to tell about Cholly's childhood. His mother tried to leave him out to die but his aunt caught her and took him in and raised him. When he was 12 after his aunt died he ran away to find his father. He did end up finding him but he never told him that he was his son.
Who is Cholly? Is he a friend of hers?
ReplyDeleteCholly is Pauline's husband and Pecola's dad.
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