The Change Pains

Why do people do what they do? How do they become who they are? What is it that makes you, you? In they autobiography, Black Boy, by Richard Wright one sees that through different life experiences how a poor, southern, black boy forms his identity through Social Structure, Ideology and Interaction. Wright was born September 4th, 1908 to a poverty stricken and abusive family on a Mississippi plantation. In 1944 he wrote a book telling is life …

…strive for his identity in various areas. The different types of jobs, people, homes, parts of the country and groups Richard Wright came in contact with he took and combined the social structure and ideology that they offered him. With those experiences Wright, in his later years, became very successful through his interactions with others as a writer and a leader. Bibliography Wright, Richard (1993). ChapterIII. Black Boy (pp.91-97). New York: First HarperCollins Publishers Inc.