Richard Wright's is one of the most influential African-American author, with his best-selling novel, Native Son and autobiography, Black Boy. Black Boy published in 1945, has been debated over how open, real, honest, cynical its contents are, but for many readers, Black Boy's trustworthiness can be questioned. The autobiography uses techniques well reserved for fiction, that many experts question if these events are nonfiction. When reading Black Boy, many emotions that are lost in today's society are re-discovered. .
Merely in the first chapter, you stumble upon a world unlike are own. The acceptance of Jim Crow, and the segregated south, dominated and ruled by the consciousness of black and white America. Recording his life accounts from the age of four, Wright demonstrate a life heavily laced with white supremacy. Wright's family, tried to force him to conform to the inferior mold Southern whites have designated for him. .
Wright's father departure from the family causes him to have these un-quenchable hunger pains, as he label "pangs of hunger," subsequently his mother falls ill, forcing the family to move in with his fanatically religious dictating grandmother. "My position in the household was a delicate one," Wright explains. "I was a minor, an uninvited dependent, a blood relative who professed no salvation and whose soul stood in mortal peril." Wright feels the desire behind religious belief-as he puts it, "the hunger of the hungry man heart for that which is not and can never be." But his family beliefs does nothing to deplete his hunger. .
Wright instead enjoying his childhood, acquired numerous jobs in order to purchase food and clothing for school, but was fired from a string of jobs for not following the white employers" idea of social hierarchy, only adding more heat to the fire, Wright grew frustrated. .
"I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked off.
