in the future. One incident in particular that disturbs Cholly Breedlove, is the incident where the white men shamed him when he first tries to make love. They flash a flashlight in his face and snicker at him. This builds up a lot of anger and hatred for anyone who loves Cholly Breedlove. He hates Mrs. Breedlove, and that is why he treats her bad. And he hates Pecola for loving him. He states: The hauntedness would irritate him -- the love would move him to furry. How dare she love him? Hadn't she any sense at all? Whatwas he supposed to do about that? Return it? How? What could his calloused hands produce to make her smile? What if his knowledgeof the world and of life could be useful to her? What could his heavyarms and befuddled brain accomplish that would earn him his ownrespect, that would in turn allow him to accept her love? His hatredof her slimed in his stomach and threatened to become vomit. (Pg. 161)And so he rapes her. Not necessarily to hurt her, but to return whatever love she had given unto him. He had never known what it should have been like. His past was laced with rejections and so he never knew how to give anything else but rejection. And so even if he thought he loved her, he was rejecting her. Which brings me to Pecola. Pecola doesn't have much of a past because no one allows her to have any. Everyone is always giving her their past, enforcing restrictions upon her and placing her into categories. Because of this she lives vicariously through these much wanted blue eyes. She is given this offspring of hate and rejection and forced to live in a present more vile than any past of any one particular character.Toni Morrison and James Baldwin make suggestions that the past is rooted into the present in both the novels with depth and clarity. In order to move forward you have to complete the past if not you could wind up in the future of the past for you....
