Summary Of Baited By Richard Wright

Richard Wright expresses the effects of a racially segregated society by describing his break-free from the oppressed community. Richard describes his uprising through the scene where the school professor prohibits him from having his own speech, threatening to keep him from graduating if he didn’t read the “proper” speech. In this dispute between the principal and Richard, the author uses word choice such as “baited.snared black young minds into supporting the Southern way of life” (Wright 224) to illustrate the constant manipulation conveyed from society towards the oppressed community. By using the word “baited”, Richard Wright is indirectly comparing his adolescent life to being unfair and bewildered, constantly falling for the traps of