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Fearful Moments In Richard Wright's Black Boy

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Throughout the novel “ Black boy ”Richard Wright uses short dialogue to describes tense and fearful moments in his childhood. In Wright’s younger days life was not easy for for him he lived constant fear of death and that no doubt created some tense moments in his life.The first time that death was introduced into young Richard rights life was with the untimely death of his uncle ,“ ‘Mr Hoskins … he done been shot. Done been shot by a white man’ “( 54).Wright’s uncle has been shot ,he’s been shot by a white man.The way Wright embedded the word “ white ” in the quote indicates that there was some kind of resentment or fear towards the white men.Focusing on the white man’s race suggest that there were two different races in the incident ,a
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