Have you ever felt like you were getting treated in an uneven way and like you are always messing up? Richard Wright sure does… Throughout the memoir Black Boy Richard has needs that he comes across through his three stages of life as a Black Boy. In this memoir Black Boy Richard struggles with the needs of safety throughout his childhood and adolescent, he then goes through self actualization as an adult.
In Richard Wright's memoir Black Boy, the biggest need for Richard is safety because he is always surrounded by violence. Throughout the memoir there are many instances where this is proved. After Richard is robbed for money, his mother starts to teach him to defend himself “to stand up and fight for [himself](17).” His Mother showing him …show more content…
In the memoir Black Boy, Richard seems to never understand the true life behind black folks. He struggles through various needs in his early life, but as he gets older he starts to understand why he and other Black people have these needs. Richard talks about how he starts to feel about blacks while he’s in Chicago, “I sensed that Negro life was a sprawling land of unconscious suffering, and there were but few Negroes who knew the meaning of their lives, who could tell their story(267).” This quote alone shows how much Richard has learned as a young black man. Richard is trying to say that Blacks are suffering because they are basically conditioned to suffer the way they do and they don’t even know it. Richard was listening to communists present speeches, “I was slowly beginning to comprehend the meaning of my environment; a sense of direction was beginning to emerge from the conditions of my life. I began to feel something more powerful than I can express(301).”Richard again says he comprehends his environment because he can relate to the struggles of others around him. The people around him helped him realize that there’s a system behind the struggle they suffer. Richard gets a random vision while at the Grant Park Plaza, “They’re blind, I said to myself. Their enemies have blinded them with too much oppression(381).” Richard says this
In Richard Wright's memoir Black Boy, the biggest need for Richard is safety because he is always surrounded by violence. Throughout the memoir there are many instances where this is proved. After Richard is robbed for money, his mother starts to teach him to defend himself “to stand up and fight for [himself](17).” His Mother showing him …show more content…
In the memoir Black Boy, Richard seems to never understand the true life behind black folks. He struggles through various needs in his early life, but as he gets older he starts to understand why he and other Black people have these needs. Richard talks about how he starts to feel about blacks while he’s in Chicago, “I sensed that Negro life was a sprawling land of unconscious suffering, and there were but few Negroes who knew the meaning of their lives, who could tell their story(267).” This quote alone shows how much Richard has learned as a young black man. Richard is trying to say that Blacks are suffering because they are basically conditioned to suffer the way they do and they don’t even know it. Richard was listening to communists present speeches, “I was slowly beginning to comprehend the meaning of my environment; a sense of direction was beginning to emerge from the conditions of my life. I began to feel something more powerful than I can express(301).”Richard again says he comprehends his environment because he can relate to the struggles of others around him. The people around him helped him realize that there’s a system behind the struggle they suffer. Richard gets a random vision while at the Grant Park Plaza, “They’re blind, I said to myself. Their enemies have blinded them with too much oppression(381).” Richard says this