black boy

Black Boy. In the South, whites wanted power over the blacks, and the only form it came in was a word. By the first amendment the whites had power to use words, as did the journalist against the southern whites. Richard Wright grows up learning about the south and how it ruins others, and how it stabs him in the back by words. Richard at the age of four learns that words have an undeniable …

…of used correctly, leads to life, and is used for pressure and verbal agreements, leads to pain. On the way north on the train, Richard realizes that he knows the south, and he is just beginning to learn it. He figures out you have to see the whole picture, then the inside first. He also knows he is not leaving it all behind. The emotions, thoughts, and words (scars) are still going wherever he does.