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A 3 page paper which examines how the theme of violence towards blacks is seen throughout Richard Wright’s Uncle Tom’s Children. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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War during times of supposed freedom. The book offers up varying experiences and many different themes. One of the primary themes involves violence. Violence, in this novel, points to deeply
seeded angers and frustrations on the part of both white and black people. The following paper examines this theme and the message being imparted by Wright. Violence in
Uncle Toms Children by Richard Wright The first section is The Ethics of Living Jim Crow which deals with one of Wrights personal
memories. He tells of a simple sort of game that went wrong between white and black boys. In this story he indicates how "The words were barely out of my
mouth before I felt something hard and cold smash me between the eyes. It was an empty whisky bottle" and then he was confronted with white men who yelled such
things as "Nigger, aint you learned no better sensen that yet?" and "Aint you learned to say sir to a white man yet??" (Wright 9). The sets a strong stage
for violence and the power of violence in regards to racial issues. The next section, Big Boy Leaves Home, tells of young boys who are having fun swimming but
because they are swimming on a white persons property they find trouble, and violence. Big Boy and Bobo backed away, their eyes fastened fearfully on a white man who was
running toward them. He had a rifle and wore an army officers uniform" (Wright 31). Two individuals are killed and then Big Boy takes the gun and kills the man.
Down by the Riverside presents the reader with a man trying to save his wife and unborn child, a man who is confronted with white violence which leads him
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