♥{Black Boy Response}♥

Black Boy so far is a very good book, as I have said before. Richard Wright is wrote the story from his 10-year-old perspective. Obviously the way he puts things when writing them is not completely the way he saw things back then. If it were then, he would have been a very smart kid. There are moments where racism is very evident to him and he talks about them.

I like the way Richard writes, because when he comes across a moment in his life that seriously affected him, he goes more in depth and then he foreshadows what it did to him. For example when he has to say goodbye to the children at the orphanage, says that he did not know it at the moment but when he would grow up he would realize that he would often be found doing things that did not fully express his emotions.

Another part that really caught my attention is when Richard talks about all the superstitions he learned and I realized that I did not know a lot of them. It was very contradicting, because Richard and his family at Christian, religious. I did not think that religious people were superstitious.

I also like when Richard’s mom is sick about to die. Richard is young but he quickly realizes that everything he went through is going to get harder if his mother dies, he knows that he would have to get a job and take care of himself, and he’s ready for that. He says he cannot wait until he is old enough to leave and take care of himself.

Another thing, is when Uncle Clack asks him about his life at home, and how he’s been. Richard is ashamed of what he has been through. He is in the home of people with enough money to eat well each day, and he’s been hungry for a long time, and watched his both go to work every day and still not be able to feed them and pay for rent. Richard is ashamed of getting drunk at the age of six and saying bad words and doing things he knows now where wrong.

THIS BooK IS GooOOoooOOOoooD (:

Hungry for Attention!!

Firstly, I would like to say that so far I like this book. Yes, I have only read the first chapter, yet I feel a promise of knowledge and understanding of perseverance in this book.

Is young Richard alone in his cravings?

This boy, Richard, burns his home. He moves to a crappy flat with his family, his father abandons them, and is forced to grow up quickly.

Richard is hungry. He is hungry for attention, for a way to escape all that is going on at home. While his mother works, young Richard goes to a saloon and drinks, says bad stuff to people for money, yet the money is not what matters, it is the attention, people laugh at him and with him. Richard wants something to do.

Is he alone? Yes, I feel as though he is. Even though there are other people in the story that are hungry too, it does not mean that they are hungry WITH Richard, or even share the same cravings….

In the beginning of the chapter he talks about burning the house and shares a dialogue with his younger brother, yet afterwards his brother is not mentioned. The reader knows that throughout Richard’s stay at the orphan house, his younger brother is there with him, but Richard does not mention him.

His mother also, is told by Miss. Simon not to visit them so often, so Richard does not see her too much anymore. Richard does not like his dad, or Miss. Simon, and defiantly not his father’s strange woman.

I get the feeling that this six year old boy is very alone. True, the author is going back and putting things the way he sees them now, but still, it seems to me as if he kept to himself a lot. He knew what he felt, but did not express it aloud.

Yes, I guess he was alone, alone in his had, left to talk to himself, because everyone else seems kind of busy doing something else.