Richard learned to read and write when one of his jobs was selling news papers for a dime. ... The books theme which I stated at the beginning is an autobiographical book, but when reading it, it didn't seem like that. ... The way Richard Wright writes is something I find very easy to read. Not only easy to read, but it also gave me information about how hard some people really did have it back in the 1900's. The autobiographical book Black Boy; I would seriously recommend anyone who is interested in how a black child, later a black man can overcome such fear and hatred towards th...

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