The Life of Richard Wright
The autobiography Black Boy, written by Richard Wright, starts off with an African American boy named Richard, growing up in the south during the Jim Crow laws era. Richard was born into poverty and dealt with many obstacles and hardships especially hunger. Although physical hunger is not the only problem that Richard faces, he also struggles to find a proper education and feels emotionally detached from everyone around him, whether its his family or encounters with random people. Hunger is a constant factor in Richard’s life whether it is physical or emotional hunger. Through these hardships Richard could not seem to fit in and find acceptance along with appreciation of the world around him, but is determined to …show more content…
Richard feels abandoned by everyone and has started to become extremely shy and self-centered person. Richard further explains his thoughts as he writes; “ "I began to be aware of myself as a distinct personality striving against others. I held myself in, afraid to act or speak until I was sure of my surroundings, feeling most of the time that I was suspended over a void"(Turner, 30). Richard’s entire family basically neglects him after just being a nuisance to everyone. He also feels separated and lost into his own world abandoned from everyone else. “I was compelled to give my entire imagination over to it, an act which blocked the springs of thought and feeling in me, creating a sense of distance between me and the world in which I lived” (Wright, 172). Richard was well aware that he is considered less equal to white people and now he is expressing the isolation between him and everyone else in the world. He is never able to hold a job for a long period of time and is constantly moving from state to state. Richard can’t stand one more second in the South so he gathered enough money to move up to Chicago in attempt to leave his misery and feeling of being …show more content…
Richard starts his desire for literature from a schoolteacher who was reading the class a story. As Richard was pondering his thoughts after the teacher read he wrote, "As her words fell upon my ears, I endowed them with a reality that welled up from somewhere with in me… The tale made the world around me be, throb, live. As she spoke, reality changed, the look of things altered, and the world became peopled with magical presences. My sense of life deepened and the feel of things was different, somehow.... My imagination blazed. The sensations the story aroused in me were never to leave me." (Turner, 39). Richards is expanding his love for knowledge as he expands his interest in literature. Being in Chicago Richard is now bouncing around from job to job and finally finds a writing club to join. Richard took advantage of this opportunity, but later was neglected by his own writing group who viewed him as a traitor. Wherever Richard seems to go he struggles to find any acceptance, which only further stresses him with all of the other hunger problems he has to live
The autobiography Black Boy, written by Richard Wright, starts off with an African American boy named Richard, growing up in the south during the Jim Crow laws era. Richard was born into poverty and dealt with many obstacles and hardships especially hunger. Although physical hunger is not the only problem that Richard faces, he also struggles to find a proper education and feels emotionally detached from everyone around him, whether its his family or encounters with random people. Hunger is a constant factor in Richard’s life whether it is physical or emotional hunger. Through these hardships Richard could not seem to fit in and find acceptance along with appreciation of the world around him, but is determined to …show more content…
Richard feels abandoned by everyone and has started to become extremely shy and self-centered person. Richard further explains his thoughts as he writes; “ "I began to be aware of myself as a distinct personality striving against others. I held myself in, afraid to act or speak until I was sure of my surroundings, feeling most of the time that I was suspended over a void"(Turner, 30). Richard’s entire family basically neglects him after just being a nuisance to everyone. He also feels separated and lost into his own world abandoned from everyone else. “I was compelled to give my entire imagination over to it, an act which blocked the springs of thought and feeling in me, creating a sense of distance between me and the world in which I lived” (Wright, 172). Richard was well aware that he is considered less equal to white people and now he is expressing the isolation between him and everyone else in the world. He is never able to hold a job for a long period of time and is constantly moving from state to state. Richard can’t stand one more second in the South so he gathered enough money to move up to Chicago in attempt to leave his misery and feeling of being …show more content…
Richard starts his desire for literature from a schoolteacher who was reading the class a story. As Richard was pondering his thoughts after the teacher read he wrote, "As her words fell upon my ears, I endowed them with a reality that welled up from somewhere with in me… The tale made the world around me be, throb, live. As she spoke, reality changed, the look of things altered, and the world became peopled with magical presences. My sense of life deepened and the feel of things was different, somehow.... My imagination blazed. The sensations the story aroused in me were never to leave me." (Turner, 39). Richards is expanding his love for knowledge as he expands his interest in literature. Being in Chicago Richard is now bouncing around from job to job and finally finds a writing club to join. Richard took advantage of this opportunity, but later was neglected by his own writing group who viewed him as a traitor. Wherever Richard seems to go he struggles to find any acceptance, which only further stresses him with all of the other hunger problems he has to live