Category: Book Black Boy

Black Boy by Richard Wright Richard Wright’s novel “Black boy” is a “Coming of age” novel recording the childhood of the narrator Richard Wright in 1945. He tells his story about being an African- American, from his early childhood to his being an adult at 29 years old. Richard Wright tells his story in the…

Black Boy is a non-fiction autobiographical piece of work that not only reflects on the treatment of African-Americans in the Deep South during the 1920s, but also remains a potent example of the average dysfunctional lifestyle of most American households during the Great Depression. Although the tone of the piece is that of the grown…