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Charles Breedlove propensities to abuse commence since his lonely childhood and lack of love. According to Theodor Reik, people deprived of love develop a "quest for unconditional love (69). He was abandoned by his mother and rejected by his father. "When Cholly was four days old, his mother placed him on a junk heap by the railroad" (Morrison, 132). His aunt Jimmy raised Cholly but did not give him sufficient love to bring him up as a caring husband or father. Also, his encounter with the two white men when he was having an intimate moment with Darlene impacted the way he matured into a man. He felt violated and dismantled from all his pride because he was forced to commit a sexual act against his will. In effect, when Cholly was forced to have sex with Darlene, he was indirectly raped. His distorted understanding of parenting and forced sexual acts was reflected in his adulthood. The emotional damage Cholly suffered as a child is reflected in his parenting to Pecola.
Pecola suffered the consequences of the distraught childhood Cholly experienced. She witnesses the acts of violence at her home when her father verbally and physically abuses her mother. At the sight of her parent's physical abuse towards each other, Pecola would say, "Please God Please make me disappear" (Morrison, 45). At the age of eleven she shows distaste for life and would rather not exist. In addition, Cholly's sexual freedom, like walking around nude, led to cruel taunting of Pecola at school. She felt shame at her father's nudity and would defend herself by saying, "I wouldn't even look at him, even if I did see him. That's dirty. Who wants to see a naked man? Nobody's father would be naked in from of his own daughter. Not unless he was dirty too" (Morrison, 71). She thought if she admitted to seeing her father nude, she would be morally tainted for loving a man who walked around nude in front of his children.