whites are bad and that by talking to them he will put himself in a situation of trouble. Richard’s Uncle Hoskins is shot and killed by white men and from this Richard develops further his hatred of the discriminating white world, “Mrs. Hoskins…he done been shot. Done been shot by a white man,” the boy gasped. Mrs. Hoskins, he dead” (Wright, 54). Throughout all the suffering Wright goes through in Black Boy, throughout all the discrimination, he keeps his integrity and strength. Stories are the impressions of real life. These two stories are reflections of the discriminating world around all of us. Huck’s realization that Jim is more then a black man, and Richard Wright’s untarnishable and indestructible integrity, give the reader hope that one day discrimination will be just an ugly memory. In a world where the golden rule only applies to a certain group or minority, discrimination is bound to flourish. And as long as we look down upon others, “mankind” exists without meaning. ...
