Black boy is Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and profound indictment-- a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering. "Superb.... A great American write speaks with his own voice about matters that still resonate at the center of our lives." - New York Times Book Review "A major event in American literary history." - The New Republic
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Purpose: In the novel Black Boy by Richard Wright, the author uses pathos and casual relationships to inform readers how hard life was growing as a black boy living in the South under Jim Crow Laws. Throughout this novel, Wright shares the difficulties and emotional struggles he went through just to become a strong man, which was very challenging.
“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...” - Richard Wright "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” — Booker T. Washington “Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.” - Richard Wright, Black Boy