Black Boy by Richard Wright

A detailed Summary of Black Boy by Richard Wright

The conflicts between man and bigotry have caused casualties within man, which caused them to become victims. In the novel Black Boy Richard Wright explores the struggles throughout his life has been the victim of abuse from his coworkers, family, and his classmates, due to this he is able to return his pain and he becomes a victimizer.

Wright depicts the victimizing tendencies of the members of his dysfunctional family. In the beginning Wright a first notice something is wrong with his family when his father goes to work and never comes back. This instance confused Wright making him unstable and untamed without restrictions. The next time Wright sees his father is during court when his mother was asking him to pay child support. This is the moment that Wright feels resentment for his father when he sees his father smiling throughout the court conflict while his mother was crying. Another occasion where Wright becomes a victim is when his mother makes Wright to accompany her to ask his father for money. When they were ready to ask his father for the money they found him with another woman getting "comfortable". As Wrights' mother asks for the money his father laughs at them and says he doesn't have any money. When the w

Even though he had a terrible child hood Wright grew up fast to be able to get a job to support his self and his family, but when Wright started working he didn't know that he would experience racism in such a harsh way which makes him a victim. When Wright gets a job at a an optamonatrist (this word is spelled completely wrong) he thinks that he coworkers like him as a person, but soon he finds out that it was just a cover because the boss was there. Once Wright was left alone with the coworkers they threatened him letting Wright know that they didn't like blacks. This made Wright feel betrayed and used because the coworkers were using him just to let the boss know that they were racists. When Wright felt this way he quit the job. Another job Wright had was at a store own by a father and son. Wright was amazed by how other black people were letting his bosses hit them and talk to them in such an unproper manner. The first instance Wright saw the evil in his employer's eyes is when he saw them bring a black lady into the store and beat her up because she didn't pay per bill on time. Wright's emotions are dropped when he sees the ladies blood on the floor of the store. Wright could not believe so much hate could exist in the world that someone would beat someone for no good reason. In Wright's experiences at work he learns that in the world hate is apart of existence in which if you are not the victimizer you will be the victim and Wright was one of the victim

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Approximate Word count = 997
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English