22. Soaphead Church

i hated him when he killed the dog, Bob. no matter how old a creature is, it has rights to live as long as God give.

elihue micah whitcomb, or the soaphead church, is a egocentric child molester who likes to touch little girls.

in the novel, there are lots of explanations ;

• why he likes to the girls only: because the boys are tough and hard to get near.
• why he tries to kill the innocent dog: to stop his sufferings- because he is too old...
• why he rejects pecola at her first attempt but later why he decides to help her: because her wish was the hardest and he knew that he "couldn't" make it happen but then he saw that pecola was needed help and she was too ugly to reject and of course that dog was needed to die...
• why he tries to play the God: because he make some body's wishes come true and thinks that he has the power to change the people's destiny.
• why he is a molester: because Velma looked at him very badly when he wanted to touch her but the little ones don't. they eat their candies and soaphead touches them; a fair agreement.

"no look that makes you feel dirty afterward. that makes yo want to die, with little girls its all clean good and friendly." (p. 181)



"evil existed because god had created it.he,god, had made a sloven and unforgivable error in judgement: designing an imperfect universe" p. 172

"god had done a poor job and soaphead suspected that he himself could have done better" p. 173

by this quotes we can clearly see that he tries to play god and actually he believes that he could do better then him. that is a prove that soaphead is an egocentric.