Black Boy
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Black Boy
This novel shows a young man's growth from a naive, innocent child to an adult. The geographical locations of his life directly influenced this process. He always thought himself a bit different from everyone around him, no matter what part of the country. His childhood in the South taught him the basics of racism. Wanting to escape this, he traveled North and found the issue more complex and confusing. Richard Wright's experience in the South prepared him for life in the Northern United States. It showed him that restrictions on personal freedom could be found anywhere in this great nation.
In early childhood, the child spoke frequently of an all-consuming hunger. He was not different from the majority of other children he knew. After his father left the family for another woman, their food supply dwindled to nothing and he comments that whenever he felt the familiar hunger pains, he thought of his father, resentfully...