Black Boy Author: Richard Wright Theme: The autobiographical account of Richard Wright takes place in the south from 1900 to 1945, and his fueled hatred towards white people in the South as he grows up. ... He and his brother decide to save their money and move up north, but not let anyone know about it. ... Richard Wright's theme in the book was trying to inform the reader about the misinterpretations that he and others had about society and the way it was ran. ... I think that the main theme was expressed well with the events that he told about how he was acting and thinking. ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Throughout his book, Kaffir Boy, Mark Mathabane describes in intricate detail how the white South Africans controlled South Africa in the 1960's and 1970's. ... As a boy, Mark would help the people who could not read get the documents they needed to keep their books in order. ... The first was in the very beginning of the book when he was only about 6 years old. ... My presence on the bus so startled several white old ladies that were about to disembark, that they fled to the back." ...

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The novel "Black Boy," written by Richard Wright takes you back in the deep south of Jackson, Mississippi where whites attempted to tame into submission blacks by hard discipline. ... A major lesson that Richard Wright has taught me, in when Shorty, a young black boy, gets beat by the white people and jokes about it. ... In the novel Richard has written about his life and about different and hard situations that he had faced with bare hands and with no support at all. I have to say that he is very courageous to write about himself. ... It was horrifying to read about all the humiliati...

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• Grade Level: High School

Sam, along with his friend Willie, has worked for Hally's family ever since Hally was a little boy. ... "Little white boy in short trousers and a black man old enough to be his father flying a kite. ... Would have been just as strange, I suppose, if it had been me and my Dad . . . cripple man and a little boy!... She's always warning me about allowing you to get too familiar- (Fugard, 53). ... He must also realize -- at least subconsciously -- that the joy and pride he felt flying that paper-bag kite on the hilltop vastly exceeded in sheer emotional power anything he ever shared with...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The family in the story is a white middle-class family, and they are constantly worried about the "people of another color"" who live beyond their "palace"" walls. ... She gives the little boy the book of fairy tales for Christmas. ... Instead of rescuing the princess as in the real fairy tale, the little boy falls prey to the "DRAGON'S TEETH."" ... The family does not seem to realize the prison they have created, but the little boy does. ... They had a little boy, and they loved him very much."" ...

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The most important thing to note about the shift in class structure can be seen by looking at the former behavior of Sutpen and Wash with how they behaved after the war. ... The "Negro" boy is a difficult character to understand; due to his inability to free himself from slavery when the law says he is a free man. ... "Drink it" Weddel orders the boy, and then following up forcefully, "Take it" (Mountain Victory 752). ... On more than one occasion Vatch refers to the boy as a nigra and dismisses him. The boy is in the stable for the majority of the story, like an animal (Mountain Victory ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He didn't write only about African Americans, and the many struggles they had to face. ... However, what I find to be most striking about Hughes" was reading about his determined nature. ... His parents, James Hughes and Carolina Mercer Langston, separated when he was a very young boy in 1903. ... In his autobiographical novel, Hughes said as a young boy, "For the first time loneliness strikes me, strikes me terribly settling down in a dull ache round about, in the dusk." ... Even as a young boy he was ready to take chances in life. ...

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It was all about having the honor and discipline to learn his craft completely, which he later realized. ... Equally, Ellie and Vi, in Douglas Ward's Happy Ending, cared first about their family's welfare. ... "I ain't selling that piano, Boy Willie. If that's why you come up here, you can just forget about it." She felt that her and Boy Willie's dad died for the piano and they owed it to his memory to keep it in the family. ...

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Troy and his friend Bono are talking about an attractive woman named Alberta when Rose comes out of the house and inquires as to what the two men are getting into. Troy responds, "What you worried about what we getting into for? ... You can't tell me nothing about death. ... You stay away from around me, boy. ... Wilson is telling us about the unique problems, or fences that black men deal with due to the fact that they are black men, with all other things being equal. ...

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Bird an interviewee in the film "Crips and Bloods explained "Growing up in Los Angeles he wanted to be a Boy Scout, but he could not because he was black" (2008). The Boy Scouts who stood for what America labels everything right and honorable refuse to accept a young man because he was black. ... It was nothing different about this one particular stop, but as Ron put it "it was a combination of all the traffic stops" (Crips and Bloods, 2008). ... You have no fathers to teach the children about their history and the source of their, so they began fighting each other. ...

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Neihardt, an Indian boy then a warrior, and Holy Man describes the life his people had in the lands that belonged to them that were seized by invaders. As a young boy, Black Elk witnessed the invastion upon his village by theWasichus, a term that was used by Indians to distinguish the white man, but having no reference to the color of his skin. ... Black Elk, being a little afraid, always influenced his friends into fighting believing and thinking always about his vision, which seemed reality to him. ... The book shows that a diversion in the world gives bad vibes between societies, where both...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Neihardt, an Indian boy then a warrior, and Holy Man describes the life his people had in the lands that belonged to them that were seized by invaders. As a little boy, Black Elk witnessed his village being invaded by Wasichus, a term that was used by Indians to designate the white man, but having no reference to the color of his skin. ... Black Elk, being a little afraid, always influenced his friends into fighting believing and thinking always about his vision, which seemed reality to him. ... The book shows that a diversion in the world gives bad vibes between societies, where both has its ...

• Word Count: 1273
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

One boy is invited to speak at local men's club where he will deliver his graduation speech. ... On it was written "To Whom It May Concern, Keep this Nigger-Boy Running"(Ellison 542). ... He felt good about all of this at the time, but he will just be living the life that the whites envision he should have. ... They (the guests) did not know if they were about to be hit or slapped. ... He dreamed about what his grandfather had said earlier. ...

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Anywhere King went, the young boy was faced with "white only" signs and places, which were off-limits to blacks, he included. ... The boy could only give the explanation that the decision was made by his parents, but King's friend did not mind the decision they had made for the young white child. ... They even informed young King about how under 100 years ago the majority of blacks were held prisoners as white people's slaves to do the work that the white people did not want to do. ...

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Cornell West goes on to talk about Malcolm X's notion of psychic conversion. ... Tre's father talked this about in the film Boyz in the Hood. He talked about how the property value of a certain area goes down and with that comes the drugs and violence on top of the poverty. ... Relating back to the film we see this adaptation to the ghetto through Dough Boy. ... That is all that Dough Boy ...

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Deadly Unna is seen through the eyes of the narrator, the main character Blacky, who is a 14 year old boy growing up in a white community who discriminates against Aborigines. ... For example Blacky hears racist jokes and comments about Aborigines in the local pub and initially believes these assumptions made about Aborigines to be true. ... The poem "Redfern at Night" also presents stereotypes held by the white community about Aborigines. ... The whites are intimidated by the presence of the Aborigines, fearing for their own safety due to the prejudices they hold about the behaviour of Aborig...

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Chopin is well known for her writing about gender related topics. ... One of La Blanche's quadroon boys was near the baby when Desiree noticed the resemblance of the skin color between the boy and her baby. ... The quadroon boy is one quarter Negro ancestry and so his mother La Blanch is also of mixed ancestry. ...

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Scout describes her feelings about a friend that she and Jem both share. ... She has feelings for a boy. ... As the trial progresses they, mostly Scout, begin to question Atticus more about why people are treating the blacks the way they do, and why they treat Atticus the way they do. ... Scout begins to criticize him and Calpurnia quickly pulls Scout away from the table into another rooms and lectures her about how she should not judge him. ... Scout is offended by this and inquires about this to her father. ...

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Morrison makes strong social statements about race, beauty, and abandonment in our society through the sad, sometimes exaggerated story of Pecola Breedlove. Morrison has stated that the book is about one's dependency on the world for identification, self-value, and feelings of worth. ... The story is about the unraveling of society's lowest of the low: a black female child. ... " when the girls at school wanted to be particularly insulting to a boy she could say, Bobby loves Pecola Breedlove! ...

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Allen again supports the idea of Milkman's reassertion from immature selfish boy to knowledgeable honest man. ... You can't even die unless it's about them. ... "The purpose seems to be communication of painfully discovered and powerfully held convictions about the possibility of transcendence within human life,"" (11). ...

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Up until that time I had never really thought about it. ... Claiborne "ruined" her and asks, "What you gotta talk about with them white folks?" ... An important event that affects Anne's outlook on life is the murder of a young black boy, named Emmett Till, by a group of white men because he had whistled at a white woman. ... When Anne confronts her mother about this event her mother tells her to never talk about it in front of the whites she works for and Anne can't understand why. ... Rice told me about" (Moody 129). ...

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After learning about Ruth's upbringing, he decides to visit her hometown of Suffolk in order to piece together her childhood. ... He thinks about this a bit more and assumes that maybe God likes black people better, hence having his mother cry at Church. ... So with this tragedy, she, "staggered about in an emotional stupor for nearly a year.... He completely agreed with the student, but felt terrible lying about that. ... During this time, he felt the pain of isolation so acutely that he would get angry at 'the boy in the mirror' (his reflection) for, "not having to ...

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Or what about Ronald Taylor from Pittsburgh, who fatally shot 3 people and wounded two. ... While this story was front page news for weeks, the brutal rape and murder of a 10 year old boy Jesse Dirkheiser by homosexuals was utterly ignored by the media. ...

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Paul didn't stay in this town very long when he was just a young boy his father, Rev. ... Paul never strove to be a hero to his people and purposefully accomplish all the goals he had so far, but that was the most admirable quality about him, he was never cocky about his accomplishments he was just doing things in life that he loved and he just happened to be good at all those things! ... Another admiring quality of Paul Robeson was his uncanny ability to get along with just about anybody. ... Through out the readings I found myself immensely interested in what I was learning about Pau...

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This is why she lies during her testimony about her father's abusive ways saying, " My paw's never touched a hair o' my head in my life.... Radley's boy was not seen again for fifteen years.... It was believed that Boo Radley was a complete monster as Jem described him saying, "Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that is why his hands were bloodstained." (16) This is one of many very rude remarks made about him. It is very ignorant to say things about somebody based on assu...

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• Grade Level: High School