The Role Of Racism In Richard Wright's Black Boy

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The harsh realities of racism makes him disturbed. Black Boy shows Richard’s lonesomeness. He declares that “I learned to become invisible, to stop living; I felt lonely, cast forever out of life” (11-12). After Richard tries some tiresome jobs, he ultimately realizes that the society is quite simple one which holds no future for the uneducated blacks. Richard dream to become a writer to be able to express the ordering spirit of the whites, the idea of white supremacy and to tell of the different ways through which the blacks have been subjugated and conquered. Attaining this dream, Wright migrates from the South to the North with a hope that things will get well again. It was there he begins to explore slavery and the persistent racial

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