Finding my place in society

boy in the 1920s had to go through? No one can. Just because the color of ones

skin is different does not mean that their different on the in side. The book Black

Boy by Richard Wright („¦ 1937) is about him self, like an autobiography. It is

about all the troubles he went through as a young boy, and all the pain he had to

face being of a different color. The book takes place it the 1920s-1930s era, and

in different areas of the South. As a young boy, Richard was always curious of

the world around him and he always got in trouble. One day Richard¡¦s dad leaves

him, his brother, and his mom ¡¥cause he got fed up with them. So Richard¡¦s mom

thought it would be best for them to move in with their grandmother. Throughout

the time period Richard discovers alcohol and gets i

. . .
Richard¡¦s expected roll in life is to be a nothing, a

nobody and to never succeed in any thing. He wants to be educated and to do some thing with his life, and not

accept his expected roll in life. Being discriminated by white people for so long caused

him to have a fear of them.

To never succeed in anything is an easy accomplishment, but trying to is not

a very easy task. No human being should have to fear another. I think some of Richard¡¦s

choices were not very good ones, but he did what he felt was right for him. All of

Richard¡¦s childhood, he was always let down and discouraged. ¡§A dread of white people now came to live permanently in my

feelings and imagination. I use to mull

over the strange absence of real kindness in Negroes, how unstable was our

tenderness, how lacking in genuine passion we were, how void of great hope,

how timid our joy, how bare our traditions, how lacking we were in those

intangible sentiments that bind man to man, and how shallow was even our

despair. n to fights, but he starts to go

to school.

Richard wants to brake out of his expected roll in life wanting to make

something of him self and to be able to succeed.

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Approximate Word count = 600
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

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