first applies for a job. Mr. Crane, his boss, tells him that he will be able to learn part of.
the trade, However, once he starts working there and asks Reynolds to tell him about the.
work, both Reynold and Pease, his co-workers, immediately change towards him. Before.
they were never polite to Richard, but they did not instigate problems with him. Now.
they are constantly mean and threatening towards him, which tells me that his co-workers.
where just being or acting nice to Richard because they wanted to look good in front of.
their boss. All of this escalates until one day when they are alone in the building with out.
Mr. Crane, and Reynolds heard Richard call Pease, "Pease," instead of "Mr. Pease." .
This way no matter how Richard responds he will get in trouble. Richard denies that he.
said that, which calls Reynolds a liar, also disrespectful. On his way home from the.
company he feels ". that the sidewalk was unreal, that I was unreal, that the people were.
unreal, yet expecting somebody to demand to know what right I had to be on the streets. .
My wound went deep; I felt that I had been slapped out of the human race." This.
incident convinces Richard that he must leave the South in order to survive. Richard.
moving to the South is a drastic change to his life, by being abused and harassed.
A major lesson that Richard Wright had learned throughout his life about himself.
was when Reynolds and Pease ganged up on Richard. They said "fell no hate for the.
men who had driven [him] from the job. They were not individual men, but part of a.
huge implacable, elemental design." By teaming up on blacks like Pease and Reynolds.
did to Richard, whites are able to unite and find powering numbers, and in turn satisfy.
their human need for pride. Richard was commanded to distinguish the separation hand.
does lead to the separation of the races, and coupled with the ego with the white man at.
the optical company demonstrated about one's race results in racism.
