I read the autobiography, Black Boy. It was written by Richard Wright. Further information about the author will be in the following paragraphs. The publication date of this book was 1945. The autobiography I read didn’t give enough information about the birth and death dates of my author.
He was born on September 4, 1908 and died on November 28, 1960. Some places associated with the author are Jackson, Mississippi, Memphis Tennessee, and Elaine, Arkansas. The early goals of the author is basically trying to survive and getting enough to eat. After his father left him and his mother, the two of them (Richard and his mother), moved to Memphis and lived on a weekly salary of five dollars, barely enough for food. One of Richard’s most notable achievements was earning a salary of twelve dollars a week working at a cafe, the highest he was ever paid throughout the novel. Richard’s family and friends didn’t have much influence on him.
If they did, it was negative influence. For example, when Richard wanted to read and write stories, his religious grandmother called it the Devil’s work and forbade it. His mother and his brother were the closest things that encouraged him. Religion also didn’t have an influence on Richard since he didn’t believe in God. The white society had a negative influence on him. For example, a white woman he was working for menacingly said that Richard would never be a writer like he wanted to because he was a Negro.
The Essay on Joyce Maynard’s: “Honoring Mothers: Four Generations”
Written by authorJoyce Maynard, the essay, “Honoring Mothers: Four Generations”, begins with a description of the relationship between mother and daughter. The first few lines illustrate how a daughter, typically, would grow up to be much like her mother. (“The kind of mother I am is all wrapped up with the kind of mother I had.”). In the first paragraph, the author ...
Richard Wright didn’t really have any contributions to society except his stories and novels. One of his stories that was published in a local Negro newspaper in Jackson Mississippi was “The Voodoo of Hell’s Half-Acre” about a villain who wanted.
