Black Boy Bigotry Analysis

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 woman that his father is with looks at Wright she says Wright was cute and that his father should give him something. This causes Wright to become embarrassed and hurt because when that woman told his father to give him something the only thing his father would give him was a nickel. The moment that Wright becomes a victim is when his father laughed and put the nickel back into his pocket. Another instance, which happens throughout the novel, is the verbal actions taken toward Wright. Throughout this whole novel the readers see that his family yells at Wright at least once a day. All of that yelling has to victimize Wright because it had the reader's attention. Through all of his trouble at home Wright turned is fear into anger and in turn became the victimizer. One instance is when he takes out razor blades and threatens them again his uncle. Then there was an occasion when he killed a cat just because his father told him to kill it in a sarcastic way. Another time was when he physically fought his aunt because she was trying to beat him. 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
victims. Even going up as a victim can not prepare someone for the slap in the face that reality gives a person when they reach adult hood. Wright experiences this when he starts working in a world he sees racism to the extreme. Wrights first experiences, as a victim at work is when he works for a store owned by a father and son. While working at the store Wright can not believe that the customers would allow the father and son to shout and even slap them. One day Wright sees the father and son drag a lady to the store and hears the lady scream from being beaten by them. This makes Wright a victim of fear. Wright's fear victimizes him more when he sees the lady running from the store and he sees the blood stain on the floor. Another instance is when he was working for an optamaligist office. When Wright first went to work there he was welcomed by all of the coworkers. Wright did not know then that the coworkers were just showing a front for their boss. The victimizing started when the coworkers would not help Wright learn the trade. Then one day Wright was confronted by the coworkers and was beaten up by them. This caused Wright to quit his job. When he told his boss he wanted to quit, the readers could tell that he was victimized by the way he talked and the emotions he expressed. Wright learned the hard way that life is really hard when living in a racist area, but he never lost hope and he survived.