Black Boy is both an accusation of the American racism and a story of the author's development. As a child growing up in the Jim Crow South, Richard faced constant pressure in the authority of the whites. However, even from an early age, Richard had a strong spirit of rebellion. If he had not been a rebellious in issues regarding race and comforting to being just another Negro, Richard would have probably had became an international author.

On the other hand, Richard did not only face opposition to his dreams from racist whites. In many ways, his own family and the black

Richard's search for belonging eventually brought him to communism, but just as he found everything to be just too much and how society was really acting he just could not take it. He agreed with Communist political philosophy but not with its practice. Wright's search for himself, a theme that runs throughout his life of rebellion, could not be found in his new little group of friends either. Wright did not want to sacrifice his individuality to prove his "loyalty." He finally resolved, as he always had, to go his own way.

In this book, Richard tells of how difficult it was for a black man in America, even though he was living in the supposedly, not racist section of the country, in the North. When he went from the south to Chicago, Wright was suddenly in a new environment. Richard found that the fear of racism, of how blacks just played al

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Approximate Word count = 576
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)