Black Boy, created by Richard Wright with his soul and written as his shadow, is a subtly actualized chronicle of an adolescent’s coming of age in the United States accompanying by a clear-cut denunciation of the Southern racial intolerance. Throughout the novel, said reasons for novelizing this superb piece of work, is upheld by numerous citations of maturity related incidents obscured by the racial era. With the myriad ingenious assertions within Black Boy in the context of the motivation in freelancing this novel, it is to my understanding that binary objectives takes place of which are truly relevant to one another.
Ignorant readers assumed that Wright’s reflections on childhood and youth ended with hope and promise. Ironically, Wright actually ended his reflections on juvenility with a ephemeral indictment on the South: “This was the culture from which I sprang. This was the terror from which I fled. ” [Page 303] Wright characterized himself in a society of racial consternation in which he was bound to deliberately undergo. He was confronted with the nurture in which he was soon frightened to reveal.
His inexperienced nature encumbrance with obscene phenomenon in which he fled. His conception narrated his childhood, and correspondingly, the inhumane thnic critique that was intimidating to his innocent intellect. And beyond reasons, affiliated both interpretations in a rationalized manner by utilizing the environmental factors as a part of growing up and indirectly criticized the acrimonious racism. As an underage individual with an inner-directed influence by means of the absence of his father and lack of food, it became an interchangeable outburst of agony.
Wright expressed his wound: “As the days slid past the image of my father became associated with my pangs of hunger, and whenever I felt hunger I thought of him with a deep biological bitterness. ” [Page 8] It became pervasive that he was a reflective thinker. A thinker that psychologically reverberates certain dramatic circumstances to one another. He reflects back to his hunger, and parallels the incident to the absence of his father. Symbolically, it is the absence of a black father of which he thought with a biological bitterness.
This male forebear is a symbol for the countenance of the societal racism, but is absent. Which further breached the racial intolerance as well as dramatized his coming of age heeded by the remembrance of an unfilled position. The magnanimity and compassion of Black Boy is for us to regariously anticipate how our lives are shaped by law and custom, by ethnic encounters and interracial negotiations, by desire and psychological defeat and intrepidity.
Notwithstanding, what was somewhat moderately touching to me above all is the autobiography’s concluding voice: “I would hurl into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all, to keep alive in our hearts a sense of the inexpressibly human. ” [Page 453] The assage proclaimed the sophisticated integrity and pride enjoyed by Wright to repeatedly dispute the immoral and to provide us a contented sense of human.
Subsequent to the inference I formulated, Wright vocalized his concluding words in a dignified way to further nourish that his coming of age is saturated with multifarious discriminatory conducts and bombarded with este em-lowering tormentors; therefore, defining this fiction as the repercussion to both a transcription of Wright’s coming of age and his morally devious attack on the racial South. With the humanistic affirmations of such a conclusion that Black
Boy was written as a scripture of one’s coming of age as well as a seized inform against the Southern prejudice, it is unmistakable that Richard Wright composed this novel as a work of stunning imagination and mythic power with said reassuring reasons. Interdependent, as well as interrelated syllogism, sets my hindmost justified revelation that foresees no other echo, if an echo ever exist. Subsequently a controversy recapitulation, his “hazy notion that life could be lived with dignity, that the personalities of others should not be violated, that men should be able to confront other men without fear or shame. “
