Experience Of The South Black Boy Sparknotes

Experience of The South: Black Boy by Richard Wright
Black Boy by Richard Wright is an autobiography, a novel that focuses on Richard Wright as a child struggling to find himself in the South. I choose this book because Richard was facing racism, prejudice throughout his life and all he wanted were to express himself through reading and writing. The fact that Wright was going through an identity crisis during the time a racism had me intrigued. Wright faces the need of love, family and encouragement, instead faces through all the physical and mental abuse which lead him to become independent at such a young age.
Wright went through so many trials and tributes at such a young age. Wright always needed to keep himself busy, never can stay still because staying still didn’t peak his interest. It all started when he was about four years old when he burned down half the house. Richard decided to play with fire since he was bored. He took the broom straws and burned it little at a time. Then when he saw it didn’t faze him, he took the broom and placed it into the fire; then placed broom against the curtain because he wanted to see the curtain change colors. Once the fire was out of control he ran out the house and hide under the house because all he can think about was getting a whopping by his momma. After everyone was out and
I can say the authors: Richard Wright and Tobias Wolff were able to give me a sense of what they went through. The descriptions of where they were, where they have been and the experiences they had with others throughout their young lives had me in awe. Wright moved from home to home and was never steady; longest was in Jackson, but he had so many different people that he mentioned with a negative impact on his life. As for Tobias, he moved a couple of times, but had more stability and had both positive and negative