Blackboy

A detailed Summary of Blackboy

Black Boy is a great book that describes how the author, Richard Wright, suffered in the South of the United States during the time when there was still a lot of discrimination throughout the country. Since the author explained many of his horrible experiences in the past, this book cannot be written in a thin book. This thick book is full of his great experiences that wanted to be read by many people in the world in order to let everybody know the disasters of racism. This racism affected Richard Write very much and he had to adapt to the environment that he was in, although he didn't know how he should act in front of white people in the beginning of the story.

There are not many examples in the beginning of the story since Richard was a little boy, and he still didn't know about racism. He did know that something was different between black and whites, but he wasn't able to understand it since he was too young. He even talks to himself in Pg. 49 that "I had heard that colored people were killed and beaten, but so far it all had seemed remote. There was, of course, a vague uneasiness about it all, but I would be able to handle that when I came to it. It would be simple. If anybody tried to kill me, then I would kill them first

." After this, he realized the harshness of racism around his society when Uncle Hoskins got shot by a white man when he was at the saloon. The reason was just because a black man was earning a lot of money and the white man became jealous. After this scene, there is an another example on Pg. 172 where he met his classmate, Ned Greenley who had lost his brother since the whites shot him for a specific reason.

He explained how he had to act as a black man; if he didn't act like a black man, he might have not gotten the chance of writing this book. Richard Write had explained how blacks should act as a black, and although many horrible things were occurring around him, he wasn't able to change it since he was just a black man.

When I read this scene, it really hit me hard I never thought that racism was that bad. I couldn't believe that the police didn't do anything at all and although the policeman knew that the black woman was raped, he accused her of being drunk. Richard could have thought of saving the woman, but if he did something to the whites, he could be killed. Therefore, Richard wasn't able to do anything. All he could do was to feel sorry for the lady. This doesn't mean that Richard didn't worry about the woman; it was the way how he had to act in the South.

I feel that Richard really wanted to resist against the white men but if he did, he knew that he was going to be d

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Approximate Word count = 942
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English