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A 5 page paper which
examines the work of Richard Wright and Clifford Odets as it reflects issues during the
1930s. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
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century. They were men who offered up many different perspectives which help us understand what the early part of the 20th century was really like for many individuals, especially those
individuals who were oppressed and essentially mistreated by society as they struggled to find their place in the world. They are also authors whose work illustrates many of the social
injustices of the times, never letting up on the reader or viewer in terms of forcing them to see these injustices. The following paper examines Richard Wrights "Black Boy" and
Clifford Odets "Waiting for Lefty," examining how they offer up a powerful understanding of some of the key issues during the 1930s. Richard Wright The history presented in
Richard Wrights "Black Boy" is a history of America during a time when the African Americans were still heavily oppressed. That is not to say that they are not oppressed
today, for they are. But, it was a time when African American people were not even allowed to eat in the same places or attend the same schools. As a
young boy the main character began to notice the world around him, a world that tried to destroy 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. 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
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