The rocky path
“There are nearly 428,000 children in foster care in the United States. In 2015, over 670,000 children spent time in U.S. foster care.” (Childrensrights 1) Now, in 2018 there are many more children who are living in foster care and end up living in foster care for the rest of their years as a child. Richard Wright, “Rite of Passage” is a novel many people could relate to choosing the right path. Families who are from the ghetto might not have all the support and money they need for their children and look to foster care, where their children could either have a supporting family that will love and cares for them or a neglective family where they go down the wrong path in life.
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Wright had many parts in the book where it was obvious both races disliked each other, sometimes one race more than the other. Right before Johnny and his gang were about to break into a home of “white folks” Johnny and Baldy had a conversation about how white people hate them so much. “They hate us, but they like our woman.” (Wright 100) The gang agreed with this comment made by Baldy, especially since one of them experienced this. The book itself is very short and ends at an awkward part because of Wright’s death. In the “afterward” part of the novel, Arnold Rampersad talks about Wright’s goals and why he wrote this book. Rampersad admits that even though this isn’t a memoir, everything in this novel was nothing new to Wright. There were many events that supported Wright’s reasonings to put racism in the novel. “Within the last ten years, the setting of Rite of Passage has witnessed two highly publicized tragedies… the first was a shooting of a black youth… by a white undercover policeman who accused the youth and his brother to mug him.” (Rampersad 118) This connects to the theme because it shows that we have enough hatred in each race that we have the audacity to kill one another. Even today we struggle with police brutality toward African-Americans. Wright has also witnessed black people doing hatred things to white people. “The Second tragedy was the sadly notorious “Central Park Jogger”... group of black youths, also teenagers, attacked a white woman running alone in the park.” (Rampersad 118) This is another example of how we have enough hatred to hurt each other but flipped where the African-Americans affected the white
“There are nearly 428,000 children in foster care in the United States. In 2015, over 670,000 children spent time in U.S. foster care.” (Childrensrights 1) Now, in 2018 there are many more children who are living in foster care and end up living in foster care for the rest of their years as a child. Richard Wright, “Rite of Passage” is a novel many people could relate to choosing the right path. Families who are from the ghetto might not have all the support and money they need for their children and look to foster care, where their children could either have a supporting family that will love and cares for them or a neglective family where they go down the wrong path in life.
Being under pressure and choosing the right path …show more content…
Wright had many parts in the book where it was obvious both races disliked each other, sometimes one race more than the other. Right before Johnny and his gang were about to break into a home of “white folks” Johnny and Baldy had a conversation about how white people hate them so much. “They hate us, but they like our woman.” (Wright 100) The gang agreed with this comment made by Baldy, especially since one of them experienced this. The book itself is very short and ends at an awkward part because of Wright’s death. In the “afterward” part of the novel, Arnold Rampersad talks about Wright’s goals and why he wrote this book. Rampersad admits that even though this isn’t a memoir, everything in this novel was nothing new to Wright. There were many events that supported Wright’s reasonings to put racism in the novel. “Within the last ten years, the setting of Rite of Passage has witnessed two highly publicized tragedies… the first was a shooting of a black youth… by a white undercover policeman who accused the youth and his brother to mug him.” (Rampersad 118) This connects to the theme because it shows that we have enough hatred in each race that we have the audacity to kill one another. Even today we struggle with police brutality toward African-Americans. Wright has also witnessed black people doing hatred things to white people. “The Second tragedy was the sadly notorious “Central Park Jogger”... group of black youths, also teenagers, attacked a white woman running alone in the park.” (Rampersad 118) This is another example of how we have enough hatred to hurt each other but flipped where the African-Americans affected the white