est of Richard Wright’s fiction grew out of the
             first nineteen years of his life. All he ever wrote of great strength and
             terrifying beauty must be understood in this light. His subjects and themes,
             his folk references and history, his characters and places come from the
             South of his childhood and adolescence. His morbid interest in
             violence-lynching, rape, and murder-goes back to the murky twilight of a
             southern past. Out of this racial nightmare marked with racial suffering,
             poverty, religious fanaticism and sexual confusion emerge the five long
             stories in Uncle Tom’s Children. (Walker 43)
             The violent impression of Southern racism marked Wright’s personality and literature. As
             a result, he would spend his entire life struggling to express the importance for men to
             reject the stereotypic notions of race, class, creed, or any other prejudice and to accept
             human value that honor the human spirit and release intelligence. It was Wright’s first
             nineteen years in the South that opened up his most powerful and passionate writing
             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 to
             self-educate himself by reading books, magazines, and newspapers. While in Chicago he
             became interested in Communism Issues. The interest came as a result of his concern with
             the social roots of racial oppression. In 1932, Wright joined the Communist party. He
             was a party activist in Chicago and New York. Wright’s involvement with the Communist
             party became the subject of most of his fiction writings. After he broke away from the
             party his writings were centered around it. Wright’s years in Chicago are often considered
             his maturation years, which were years of growing maturity and preparing for an
             Wright’s career as a writer basically began in the 1930R...