The novel "Black Boy," written by Richard Wright takes you back in the deep
             south of Jackson, Mississippi where whites attempted to tame into submission blacks by
             hard discipline. It seemed that the more Richard had gained in life, the more he was hurt.
             Richard was alienated from his environment, even though he tried to distance himself
             from the prejudice all around him, the white people still tried to turn him into the
             stereotypical southern black person. Richard was always a rebel, from his boyhood to his
             older teenage years. From the beginning he would not subdue below the white man
             himself like the other black people around him did. The white people around him knew
             that he was different from other black men. The people were scared because he
             challenged the system that they had created for themselves as the super power. They
             feared Richard, and some of the white people felt it necessary to act out their racist
             feelings to order to cover up their fear.
             Their were many events in Richard Wright's life which may have shaped his
             philosophy of his life. In the novel, the principal at Richard's school had asked Richard
             to give a speech to a large audience of white and black students, Richard refused to read
             the principal's prepared speech. By reading the principal's speech, Richard was saying
             what the white power wanted him to say and to Richard this would be giving in to the
             thing he hated so much. Richard was willing to leave school without a diploma instead
             of this. White people alienated Richard from his environment because he did not accept
             the way of life that other black people did. This even that occurred in his life, shaped his
             philosophy on life, extremely, this told people that he would have his mind set on one
             thing and concentrate on that, to achieve his goal, in other words he had a hard head and
             no one could persuade or change his mind o...