must be understood in this light. His subjects and themes,his folk references and history, his characters and places come from theSouth of his childhood and adolescence. His morbid interest inviolence-lynching, rape, and murder-goes back to the murky twilight of asouthern past. Out of this racial nightmare marked with racial suffering,poverty, religious fanaticism and sexual confusion emerge the five longstories in Uncle Toms Children. (Walker 43)The violent impression of Southern racism marked Wrights personality and literature. Asa result, he would spend his entire life struggling to express the importance for men toreject the stereotypic notions of race, class, creed, or any other prejudice and to accepthuman value that honor the human spirit and release intelligence. It was Wrights firstnineteen years in the South that opened up his most powerful and passionate writing(Walker 43).In 1927, at the age of nineteen Wright migrated to Chicago, Illinois. In Chicago,Wright found a job a as Post Office Clerk and at the same time he continued toself-educate himself by reading books, magazines, and newspapers. While in Chicago hebecame interested in Communism Issues. The interest came as a result of his concern withthe social roots of racial oppression. In 1932, Wright joined the Communist party. Hewas a party activist in Chicago and New York. Wrights involvement with the Communistparty became the subject of most of his fiction writings. After he broke away from theparty his writings were centered around it. Wrights years in Chicago are often consideredhis maturation years, which were years of growing maturity and preparing for anillustrious future (Metzger 608).Wrights career as a writer basically began in the 1930s. In 1930, he wrote hisfirst novel, Lawd Today. His novel, Lawd Today, however was not published until afterhis death. His first published work was, Uncle Toms Children: Five Long Stories, whichconsists of stories ...
