Analysis Of Uncle Tom's Children By Richard Wright

Richard Wright was born in September 4,1908 o near a plantation in Natchez, Mississippi. His mother was a school teacher while his father was a sharecropper. In 1914, cotton prices collapsed because of the war. He’s father was one among thousands to migrate North because of industrial center. When he got to Memphis, where he found a job at a local drugstore. The pressures of city living led caused him to move south from town to town for intermit school and work.He arrived in Chicago during the Great Depression,and work odds job to support himself. Since he was twelve, Richard Wright had not only dreamed of writing, but he knew how to written. He was attracted to the American naturalists Mencken, Dreiser, Lewis, and Anderson who mostly printed communist works. Uncle Tom's Children, was the first book that was published in 1940. These stories depict the black revolutions in the south. Each of the stories, depict violence and ans passion like native son that was also published in 1940. Wright gained national attention, and won the $500 prize which was awarded by Story magazine.

Wright was a member of Communist party from 1932 to 1944, and the books he wrote during this period reflect his belief in communism which he believed would restore humanity Wright's autobiography, Black Boy

Pa ain't got no gun. We need gun in the house. Yuh kin never tell what might happen.” The mother is upset that his son wants a gun and he argues that whites might someday attack them. Kids at teenagers want weapons because they want to feel some sense of self worth. Having a gun would make them feel superior to others because the have the power to decide who lives and who dies. The mother is more ashamed because he is ask her for the two dollars to purchase the gun. She reminds her that they lived in the south for centuries and there was never a need for the father to use a gun. She wants the son to realize that not all white people are racist and