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ARRoGANT CoURiERS WiTH ESSaYS
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Grade Level: Type of Work Subject/Topic is on:
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[ ]6-8 [ ]Class Notes [Essay on the English ]
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[x]9-10 [ ]Cliff Notes [Author Richard Wright ]
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[ ]11-12 [x]Essay/Report [ ]
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[ ]College [ ]Misc [ ]
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Dizzed: 10/94 # of Words:721 School: ? State: ?
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>Chop Here>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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English Paper
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Richard Wright
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Throughout history, many talented authors writings have reflected the
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time period in which they lived in. Often the overall tone, and attitude
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of the novel is due to factors, that they have been born with, such as the
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environment they grew up in, who raised them, or moral ethics were
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instilled into their way of thinking.
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Richard Wright is an African-American author whose writings greatly
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reflected the time period in which he lived in. Native Son and Black Boy
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are two classic examples of Wright's works that are profoundly influenced
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by the era in which he lived.
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Wright was born on September 4, 1908, in Natchez, Mississippi on a
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small farm much in the same manner that his hero, Bigger Thomas, began his
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life. Deprived, poor, and segregated against, Wright spent much of his
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early childhood in pain, fear, and shame. He was repeatedly beaten by his
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mother and grandmother for trying to fight back at the segregation imposed
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upon him. He was also beaten by whites to whom he had to turn for jobs and
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he was resentful of the Jim Crow rules by which he had to live. In Black
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Boy, Wright's autobiography, he recalls a familiar childhood event: "I
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would feel hunger nudging my ribs, twisting my empty guts until they ached.
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I would grow dizzy and my vision would dim."
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In Black Boy, Wright used his own life to exemplify what qualities of
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imagination and intellect are necessary of a southern African-American in
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order to understand the meaning of his life in the United States. Black
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Boy also reveals it's 'author hero' as a man controlled by an absolute
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certainty of his own virtues.
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The ethics of living Jim Crow require that Wright be obedient and
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silent. So although he was not a slave, he in essence was. He shared the
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same emotions as the slaves and emphasized for them. Yet everything we
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know about his character has prepared us to expect rebellion.
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Wright could not, from his earliest years, tolerate this repression,
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and Black Boy is the chronicle of his segregation, not only from the white
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society but from with his own society.
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While Black Boy represents a picture of a personality corrupted by a
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brutal environment, it also presents natural human responses to its world
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by a sensitive child.
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The very fact that Black Boy is an autobiography of Wright's life is in
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itself exemplifying how his life was reflected in his works. Wright's
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life, especially his childhood apparently had a great impact on him,
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otherwise he would not have written a book about.
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Native Son, the novel that Wright is most noted for is also greatly
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reflected by the time in which he lived.
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Bigger Thomas, the hero and the protagonist of the novel, experiences
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escape which takes place within an urban maze that has come to be called
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black ghetto. In essence, Bigger's escape has been blocked, it is destined
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for failure even before it begins. Just like in Wright's life, he has
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grown up in a 'ghetto' of Mississippi, in a society in which he attempts to
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rebel but is condemned for doing so.
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Bigger Thomas, Wright's fictional character, is in some ways
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non-fictional, perhaps because Bigger's rebellious persona is what Wright
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strived to be although was unable to do to factors that he could simply not
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overcome.
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Bigger is an example of the black revolt against the injustices of the
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white asti system, and his revolt takes the form of crime against the white
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society. Born into a society that is white and hostile, (just as Wright
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was) Bigger becomes the total embodiment of that society's prejudices and
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hatreds against the black man.
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In a way Bigger Thomas is an autobiographical character because so much
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of what occurs in bigger's life, similarly occurred in Wright's.
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Thus we see that much of Richard Wright's works have been influenced by
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the time period in which he lived. Black Boy, Wright's autobiography is
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the perfect embodiment of just how great his life reflected his writings.
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Native Son, although a fictional book, in many ways still reflected
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Wright's life as a rebel. In Native Son, Wright could articulate himself,
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using Bigger Thomas as a fictional character to express the powerful spirit
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which tried to overcome the white society which oppressed him.
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