as Pecolas does. His father ran away from him and he will run away from his child who is carrying his child/grandchild. After the rape, Pecolas mother doesnt believe Pecola and beats her. This final rejection leads to Pecolas downward spiral to insanity. Chollys only mother figure, Aunt Jimmy, dies, abandoning him as his parents did. Sadly, his only father figure, Blue Jack, shares a watermelon heart with Cholly and this small act of kindness is his happiest memory. The father in the Dick and Jane myth was strong and kind. The father/son relationship between Sammy and his father is full of hate and completely dysfunctional. Sammy hates his father and helps physically defend his mother against Cholly then asks her to kill him, as he lays unconscious. He tries to establish some order to the Breedlove household. He doesnt understand that his mother depends on Chollys behavior for her own self-image. Sammy is unhappy and runs away for months at a time, searching, like his father had done at his age.In the case of Geraldine and Louis, Jr., her fear of funk will cause her to brush her sons black hair forever in abortive attempts to wipe out the subtle and telltale signs of nigger. Geraldine experiences a self-division in order to expel her funkiness and blackness and this soon takes over her true black self. Louis Jr., too, experiences this self-division, when he yearns to play with other black boys as a young boy, but is told only to play with whites, with whom he is not accepted. Louis, Jr., becomes an angry, violent child, just as his mother became, both of them angry at blackness rather than at the Dick and Jane myth. Geraldine favors her cat with black hair and blue eyes to her son, Louis, Jr. The cat becomes her surrogate child as the blue-eyed Fisher child became the surrogate child to Pauline Breedlove. The cat will die physically as Pecola will die mentally. Soaphead Church was a mixed black and white ancestry from the Car...
