Of course italics would be used for the reason of naming something. But he unusually uses it in the religious parts of the story. He even puts the hymns into a separate paragraph but why? When Wright and a few boys were going up for the people of the church pray for them in the story in chapter 6, they sang a hymn singing, “It ain’t my brother, but it’s me, Oh, Lord, Standing in the need of prayer”.(Wright 153) Wright often has this internal struggle, which was also an irony, that he was not a believer of God while his family was very very religious. He uses the following …show more content…
While reading the book, Wright helps the reader feel his trials and tribulations and through the different devices, the reader can know who this certain “black boy” really was. At the end of the day, all Wright had was a sense of hope to keep him alive. He says, “The problem human unity was more important than bread, more important than physical living itself; for I felt that without a continuous current of shared thought and feeling circulating through the social system, like blood coursing through the body, there could be no living worthy of being called human”. (Wright