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Summary: MUST READ
Review: THIS IS A VERY GOOD BOOK AND I WILL DESCRIBE IT AS A CLASSIC. IT'S NOT RECOMMENDED TO LIGHT WEIGHT READERS.
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Summary: this was a good book!
Review: I think Richard Wright is a good writer. The story of his childhood was interesting. His story showed the world a point of view from another side. I am glad that I was forced to read this book. I think it teaches children in school how things were done in the 1920s and 30s. I WOULD RECOMEND IT TO ALL MY FRIENDS!
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Summary: fascinating
Review: I'm a little wary of autobiographies, just because it often seems to be an excuse for a person to toot their own horn, but that was not a problem with this book. Wright told his story in a pageturning straightforward manner. His story was amazing and eye-opening. I had never read the firsthand account of a person living in the deep South around the Great Depression. It seems to be a subject-matter skipped in history classes, which jump from post-Reconstruction South to the Civil Rights movement of the 60s. I highly recommend this book to everyone.
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Summary: A Book That Makes You Think
Review: Richard Wright's Black Boy was something I read for a book report, and I have to say I'm glad I did. I understand more about the way things worked back than now and how cruel people could be. I intend to read more by Richard Wright in the future.
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Summary: A Classic That Must be Read
Review: In my quest to either reread or read the first time some of the timeless classics by African American writers this year, I tried to avoid reading this one. I just wasn't up to reading about another downtrodden, poverty-stricken, living in the ghetto story. But it is more than that. This masterpiece is a commentary on a way of life in the early part of the 1900s, a life that many African Americans endured and survived coming through victorious.
Richard Wright recalls his poverty-stricken childhood, abandoned by a father, and physically abused and misunderstood by the adults in his life. Uncomfortable among his own people, he didn't fit in with the lifestyle of the blacks in his life nor could he abide the Jim Crow shuffling he had to do with whites. He found he could not compromise his values and knew he had to leave the south. The poverty was startling yet he chose to go back to live with his mother and grandmother when he could have stayed with an uncle where there was plenty of food.With only an nine grade education, he was self-taught, reading and disciplining himself to pursue what he wanted most, to write. And write he did. He wrote stories and had them published when he was still in school and when he moved to Chicago he wrote for the Communist Party. With the Party, Wright thought he had found his niche, but again, he was the odd man out never conforming to their ideals. As I read I kept saying, this is enough already. The poverty, the abuse, the Jim Crow and racism was a wearing me down. But this was a man who rose above his circumstances to have a life that was worth pursuing and living. I am intrigued by this man and his life and look forward to reading his most recent biography.
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Summary: Black Boy
Review: I found Richard Wright's novel Black Boy very powerful.From the stories of his rough childhood.Such as him setting his house on fire or how his father abandonned his family.To his stories of how he had to overcome racial discrimination.But even with all these obstacles he taugth himself how to read and write.Richard Wright was a very strong person, and thats how he overcame these things among others.
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Summary: I doesn't take a lot of words to say how great this book is.
Review: I read this book right after I got out of school. I saw the reviews and just wanted to say many of the reviews are too wordy. Blackboy is considered seminal reading for anyone seriously interested in the African American experience. The novel Native Son made Wright famous, but beyond any doubt, Blackboy is a super-classic novel. It is the best novel written by the one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Too much is made of Wright's aversion to black women and it colors much of the comentary on his life and writings. Wright was above all else, a tremendous writer and this is his best work.
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Summary: Black Boy Review
Review: This autobiography of Richard Wright has a really strong sense of power to it. It shows the everyday trials that a young black boy has to go through in order to be accepted in this society. Giving real life situations this book is filling everybody that reads it in on the life and times of a normal african-american human. Situations were very hected during the time that Richard Wright was growing up and he knew being a black child was a top reason that he would never make it through. Strength comes from within the mind and soul and there was alot of examples showing how strong he was. No matter what stood in his way, he never gave up. There was plenty of negativity, stereotyping, and hatred against blacks and most of that still exists today believe it or not. Black Boy captured the attention of many individuals and gave a sense of what it was like to get anywhere in the world today as a young afro-american. Just telling of all the events that he went through shows how much one can do with very little oppurtunities. Overall, Black Boy is a very powerful book and should be read by teenagers all across the country.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: I couldn't put it down. I was blessed to read this book during my High School years, and I still recommend this great story to anyone now. I actually found myself reading it during my history classes as means of tunning my instructor out. It was that good. If you ready to read a story about a Black Man's life in the early 1900s, learn how he was faced with many obstacles that seemed like mere challenges to him, then read this book. The character's envolvement with different organizations in this world today will astonish you. You will not be able to put this book down. Above reviews state how this book was banded in the 1950s- I understand why! Please allow me to speak in slang- Wright "Kept It Dangeriously Real" in this book!
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Summary: Important- for many reasons
Review: Richard Wright's "Black Boy (American Hunger)" was an important book to me not only because of understanding I gained of black experience in the rural South and urban North, but also because it caused me to think about myself. Wright's introspection is both powerful and thought-provoking. Few people have the courage to truly look inside themselves and write about who they really are. Similarly, Wright's ability to analyze others is amazing. This book should be requierd reading gor everyone not only because of the way it illuminates the horror of racism and oppression, but so that it serves as a catalyst for people to stop and look inside themselves.
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