Comparing Richard Wright's Black Boy And Hunger Of Memory

The liberal arts consist of multidisciplinary preparation in humanities, sciences, social sciences and the arts, which means that someone will have a broad general education at the college level. While being in this liberal arts class, we have had to read many books, but not just read them but go further in depth into them to completely understand what is going. To give further examples of how we dissected books and what I have learned, I have chosen the two books Black Boy and Hunger of Memory to write about. The autobiography, Black Boy by Richard Wright had a lot of history information that wasn’t completely stated directly in the book, but through further analysis it came to light. During Richard Wright's childhood, a lot of laws and rulings were taking place and were used against the African-American people as well as their community as a whole. For example, the black code laws in the South were implemented to …show more content…
One was that justice was not equally applied to everyone who was born in the United States, in this specific matter it was the African Americans. The African Americans like Richard and his family knew that they couldn’t go to the police for help because instead of them helping out, they might end up making the situation worse. If an African American was to go through trial against a white person they would automatically lose in a blink of an eye because of the color of their skin and equality for everyone did not exist. The colored where belittled in anything they did like wherever Richard worked he was seen as something less than a person because of how the South was set-up to be just a white man ruled and all the colored were like slaves. I was able to better comprehend and pinpoint ethical issues in Black Boy to have a deeper understanding of the