south of Jackson, Mississippi where whites attempted to tame into submission blacks by

hard discipline. It seemed that the more Richard had gained in life, the more he was hurt.

Richard was alienated from his environment, even though he tried to distance himself

from the prejudice all around him, the white people still tried to turn him into the

stereotypical southern black person. Richard was always a rebel, from his boyhood to his

older teenage years. From the beginning he would not subdue below the white man

himself like the other black people around him did. The white people around him knew

that he was different from other black men. The people were scared because he

challenged the system that they had created for themselves as the super power. They

feared Richard, and some of the white people felt it necessary to act out their racist

feelings to order to cover up their fear.

Their were many events in Richard Wright's life which may have shaped his

philosophy of his life. In the novel, the principal at Richard's school had asked Richard

to give a speech to a large audience of white and black students, Richard refused to read

when they found that they weren't necessarily the absolute best at everything, since black

situations that he had faced with bare hands and with no support at all. I have to say that

greatest impact on him is his mother. His mother influences him in many ways, the most

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