ABSTRACT
The much-acclaimed movie Richard Linklater's Boyhood chronicles the protagonist's process of maturation from six to eighteen, detailing his passage from first grade to college. The film is unique in a number of ways, especially because it manages to capture a slice of life as it were, following the life of a boy, Mason and his family for a dozen years, from 2002 to 2013. Boyhood has been repeatedly praised for bringing childhood and adolescent memories to viewers, so they could relive and revisit their past. This chapter investigates the black childhood and boyhood in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Home, through the characters of Cholly Breedlove and Frank Money respectively. Blue is the one who tries to connect Cholly to the history of African American people, instructing him about the facts of life—tantamount among them are white people and women. More importantly, Cholly openly expresses his feelings for him: "Cholly loved Blue".
