Based on “The Library Card” by Richard Wright I feel there was many ways that a person’s mindset can be changed. There is a lot that books can do to change a person's mindset and in this book we see this. The guy that was checking out the books had a very closed mindset in the beginning of the story but as the story progressed and he started reading more, he was more open to new things, and he was also more understanding of everything that was going on around him. As the book progressed he was also a lot less scared of what would happen to him if he was caught reading, I feel that reading all of the books that he did read might have made him a little less scared of the place he lived in.

One example of him being a little more closed minded