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     Has anyone ever deliberately left you? Left you alone, feeling deserted, isolated, and by yourself? Imagine you were abandoned by those who were supposed to love you from the mean solar day you were born until this present day. How would that make you feel? In Toni Morrisons first novel, The Bluest Eye, she examines the causes, effects, and consequences of abandonment through one character, Cholly Breedlove. As vigorous as the ways he eventually destroys himself and also those around him.     Even before his birth, Cholly Breedlove has felt the vicious sting of loneliness. Cholly Breedlove was born to a young suffer who, after four days of life, discarded him in "the rim of a tire under a soft black Georgia sky" (133). His aim decided to leave his mother even before Cholly was born. Fortunately, he was rescued by his Great auntie Jimmy, who raised him thereafter. He grew an intense love for his Aunt Jimmy, but her death marked the first of many episodes that began a downward spiral of his adolescent life. At Aunt Jimmys funeral, Cholly is placed into a traumatic world of racism when two white hunters interrupt him having clumsy sexual intercourse with a young girl, Darlene. He immediately transfers his angry expertness to Darlene because he realizes that hating two white men would not be the smartest thing to do in a segregated racist world. Never did he at once consider directing his hatred toward the hunters. Such an emotion would have destroyed him--that hating them would have consumed him, burned him up like a piece of soft coal, leave only flakes of as and a question mark of smoke (119). The white men are out of his reach, and Cholly grows to hate and kill white men. His masculinity was revoked when those two men forced him to continue having sex while they hilariously watched.Cholly abandoned Darlene when he found out she might be pregnant most possible because he was abandoned by his father a s a child. "He had to get away. Never mind the fact that he was leaving that very dayCholly knew it was wrong to run out on a pregnant girl, and recalled, with sympathy, that his father had done just that to him. Now he understood. He knew then what he must(prenominal) do--find his father. His father would understand" (120). After being abandoned in a junk heap by his mother, rejected for a crap game by his father, there was nothing more to lose with Cholly Breedlove.