Richard Wrights memoir Black Boy teaches it's readers about how living in the America was set up.most importantly it teaches how badly black people were treated. Wright was mistreated just because he was a young black boy living in the south.In the memoir Black Boy Richard was trying to tell his reader how bad racism was back when he was a kid. Back in the 1900's Wright also used pathos to show how his emotions were toward racism. He informed use how to make a difference in the world so that everyone could be equal. Richard uses pathos throughout all of his memoirs chapters. He does that by telling us how he felt about what he was going through. For example in chapter 1 and 2 he talks about his father and how his father