Foreshadowing In Richard Wright's Story

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Richard wright’s story fixates on threat of black manhood to white people .Before the boys discovered or stepped foot onto the white man’s property they knew they would get in trouble and lynched which was foreshadowing. What I found catching is that both communities converged and collaborated. So everybody collaborated once one was in trouble. It was gratifying to visually perceive the African American community converge in times of tragedy. Even though this act lead to their house being burnt down, they showed the whites that if you mess with one of them that they were mess with all of us and that they were not going to give in. Which they feared back in slavery times they just optically canvassed the act of their own people getting hurt.

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