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 (:
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