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| Original Title: | Black Boy |
| ISBN: | 0060929782 (ISBN13: 9780060929787) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Richard Wright
Paperback | Pages: 419 pages Rating: 4.05 | 45643 Users | 1779 Reviews
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| Title | : | Black Boy |
| Author | : | Richard Wright |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | The Restored Text Established by The Library of America |
| Pages | : | Pages: 419 pages |
| Published | : | September 1998 by Harper Perennial Modern Classics (first published February 1945) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Cultural. African American |
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Gems sometimes come from unexpected places such as Richard Wright’s autobiography/novel Black Boy. I decided to read this because I discovered a free literature course named The American Novel since 1945 from Open Yale and it was the first title discussed. If interested in the course check this link: http://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-291. I have to admit that I did not know much about the author (he seems to be famous in the US) and I was not so keen about reading this book even after watching the introduction made by the course teacher. I was increasingly surprised when pages started to fly and I found myself totally immersed in Richard Wright’s childhood as a poor black boy in the South at the end of WW1. That was a horrible time for an intelligent and curios black boy to be alive and try to accomplish his dream of telling stories. Even though slavery was abolished, black people were treated not much better than animals by the white folks. His curiosity and his love for books made him suffer endless beatings and the wrath of his family. Moreover, His honest and straight-forward manner created conflicts with the whites. He slowly learned to control his feelings and put all his strengths in finding a way to escape to the North. I did not feel like the author was trying to make us feel pity for his childhood. The intent was more to present the facts as they were, how life was back then for a black boy. His intention is supported by the name of the book, Black boy. A generic name that can let us imagine that his experience is the experience of many of the black boys from that period. In the beginning of the review I said this is an autobiography/novel because there are many voices/proofs that contest the reality of some of the facts presented in the autobiography. It appears that some adventures were copied from other children’s experiences and some of the events happened differently than pictured here. That comes to support the idea that he wanted his autobiography to be generic.Rating About Books Black Boy
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Here's Richard Wright going door to door in the 1920s Jim Crow South trying to sell his dog for a dollar because he's starving. A white lady offers him 97 cents and, feeling some distant surge of fury inside, he turns her down, goes home with his dog and his hunger. A few days later (view spoiler)[the dog gets run over by a coal truck, (hide spoiler)] and this book is a bummer. This is not quite 100 years ago, this hellish world he's trying to claw out of. The degradation required of blackUtterly exceptional in every way. An amazing depiction of human intolerance and Southern brutality. It makes you eager to read other books by Wright. He was such a great writing talent!
So much to be said about this book that I couldn't possibly give a good review and include everything.Many times I was left speechless and at times laughed at the innocence of a child who knew no better and was forced to grow up too fast and learn things on his own. Wright was definitely a character and he shares his experience about his family, the many times he had to move and the number of schools he attended because of these moves. He shares his ordeal with hunger, a father who abandons
What more can possibly be said about this harrowing memoir that feels like a novel? The tension Richard Wright feels throughout the early part of his life, his anger and fear are conveyed so brilliantly on every page as well as the poverty, hunger and despair he fights against.Black Boy was originally published in two parts, the first as Black Boy, the second as American Hunger but this edition combines the two as it was originally intended. The first part focuses on Richard Wrights life in the
Black Boy is a deeply horrifying and intelligent memoir from Richard Wright, a Mississippi black boy who became so much more than black boys were supposed to become. His earliest memories on a Southern plantation and the tough streets of Memphis become fantastic stories that he, unfortunately, had to live. Richard is different, who knows why, but hes different. All the black families living on his street are hungry, but Richard wonders why hes hungry. Why cant his mother, a cook at a restaurant
Did I seriously just start this book two days ago? I lost track of time while I was reading this. I just sort of fell into it, only coming up for air for pesky things like work. And peeing.I'm ashamed to say I haven't read anything by Richard Wright prior to this. I've been sitting on a few of his books, not really sure what I was waiting for. I decided to start with this one as it's a memoir and I figured a good a place as any to get a feel for an author. Now I'm glad I did so; I learned quite
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