Black Boy
“Black Boy” is a movie in which Richard Wright, the author, presents an often unheard view of the black lifestyle back in 1930’s. This is a story about the hardships and obstacles faced by a poverty-stricken family. Mr. Bigger, Wright’s main character, experiences the exhilaration and abuse of freedom after he has a panic attack. The setting of this film is in a political and economic corruption. Published in the early nineteen forties, the oppressive nature of life in “Black Boy” may well be a reflection of the era blacks had to grow up in.
When he encounters whites who want to give him a good job and a spacious and clean room with plenty to eat, he can’t refuse. When Bigger is hired by Mr. and Mrs. Dalton to be the family chauffeur, a great deal of responsibility is held on his shoulder. Bigger has been damaged by the cruelty of twenty years of life in utter poverty, while the Daltons get to experience the best luxuries there are. Bigger feels ashamed in front of the whites, the Daltons. He also feels threatened by them, because of what he has been told in many different ways the consequences if he kills their …show more content…
Mr. Dalton is not seen in much of the beginning of the movie. Mary’s mom walks in when Bigger is taking Mary to her room. In panic, Bigger suffocates her so the blind mother won’t hear Mary talk nonsense and know that she has been drinking. When Mrs. Dalton leaves the room, Bigger finds out that Mary is dead. My reaction was oh no!! Bigger did everything he was told, even by Mary, multiple times to take her downtown instead of the University. He wanted to gain the respect of the family, and Mary claimed that “nobody would find out.” In running from this crime, he commits a series of “panic” acts; he burns her body, he rapes his girlfriend, he kills her, and throws her body away as if she were
“Black Boy” is a movie in which Richard Wright, the author, presents an often unheard view of the black lifestyle back in 1930’s. This is a story about the hardships and obstacles faced by a poverty-stricken family. Mr. Bigger, Wright’s main character, experiences the exhilaration and abuse of freedom after he has a panic attack. The setting of this film is in a political and economic corruption. Published in the early nineteen forties, the oppressive nature of life in “Black Boy” may well be a reflection of the era blacks had to grow up in.
When he encounters whites who want to give him a good job and a spacious and clean room with plenty to eat, he can’t refuse. When Bigger is hired by Mr. and Mrs. Dalton to be the family chauffeur, a great deal of responsibility is held on his shoulder. Bigger has been damaged by the cruelty of twenty years of life in utter poverty, while the Daltons get to experience the best luxuries there are. Bigger feels ashamed in front of the whites, the Daltons. He also feels threatened by them, because of what he has been told in many different ways the consequences if he kills their …show more content…
Mr. Dalton is not seen in much of the beginning of the movie. Mary’s mom walks in when Bigger is taking Mary to her room. In panic, Bigger suffocates her so the blind mother won’t hear Mary talk nonsense and know that she has been drinking. When Mrs. Dalton leaves the room, Bigger finds out that Mary is dead. My reaction was oh no!! Bigger did everything he was told, even by Mary, multiple times to take her downtown instead of the University. He wanted to gain the respect of the family, and Mary claimed that “nobody would find out.” In running from this crime, he commits a series of “panic” acts; he burns her body, he rapes his girlfriend, he kills her, and throws her body away as if she were