es that mold his creative outlook, and the obstacles he must overcome to escape the limited environment in which he is growing up.These readers feel that many of Wright's hardships are those of any sensitive and rebelliousindividual in a world that doesn't respect those qualities. They see the novel's conclusion less as a flight from racism and more as a move toward a new career andidentity as a writer. Which of these two major themes do you think is more central? Or arethey given equal weight? Richard Wright was the grandson of slaves. His early life, and lives of his parentsand liberated grandparents, were devasted by the consequences of this terrible inheritance. Black Boy was influenceed by these historical perpectives. Black slaves, brought in chainsfrom Africa, played a major role in laying the economic foudations of the United States. These enslaved people were not permitted to establish bonds in the strange new land withpeople they knew, but were sold and disbanded. In the early 1900s, antiblack violenceincreased. Between 1910 and 1920, Southern agricuture was gripped by a severeeconomic depression due to crop damage caused by flooding and the boll weevil. In thoseyears, about 500000 blacks moved to the North, attracked by new industrial jobs. In theNorth, blacks continued to face discrimination in hiring practices and segregation inhousing. CONCLUSION: By reading Wrights record of childhood and youth, my understandingsabout the blacks lives increased. It provived a voice for many people who endured livesof wretched fear and poverty in United States. Black Boy catched my interests as I readthrough it. Wrights creates an image of himself as a boy who is sensitive at othe externalworld and to his own inner reality. He wants to bring to the white American audiencewhat it means to be black in a white world. And he succeeds brilliantly....
