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A 3 page analysis of Richard Wright's "Black Boy" in relationship to its historical significance. No additional sources cited.
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Richard Wrights book "Black Boy" we see powerful elements that speak of one of those particular times in history. His story takes place in a time when the black people
of the nation were still incredibly oppressed, and many black individuals wished they were white, a time in history when the black people could not eat with whites, or even
go to the same schools. Bearing these facts in mind the following paper examines some of Wrights book as it relates to this time in history. Black Boy
In this novel we first see a young boy, the main character, who begins to see and take note of the world that surrounds him. It is a world that
seems to work at destroying the black individual. He observes a white man whipping a black boy and asks his mother why that happened. His mother says "The white man
did not whip the black boy...He beat the black boy" (Wright 31). In this subtle excerpt we see that the society in which the boy lived was one that worked
hard towards beating, both physically and socially, the Black individuals. It is also a world wherein even the black people seem to make lighter of situations than they should, because
they know that to rebel would be disastrous. Then, just a short while later he begins to notice, for the very first time in his life, that people of
different races are separated. "[F]or the first time I noticed that there were two lines of people at the ticket window, a white line and a black line" (Wright 55).
As he grows he sees further and further into this society, this history, into which he was born, stating "This was the culture from which i sprang. This was the
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