A. Catch Sentence: Books introduce new ideas and different ways of thinking. Books have been known to increase knowledge on details that have been half understood.
B. Thesis: Richard Wright demonstrated that reading books gives a different understanding of the surroundings and how books changed a black young man.
C. In today’s culture there should not be any racism or discrimination, but unfortunately it stills occurs in today’s society.
II. Supporting Paragraph 1: Richard Wright went to his office early morning and picked up the Memphis Commercial Appeal.
A. In the editorial page, Wright came across an editorial work by H.L. Mencken called the American Mercury.
B. H.L. Menken was a white man being criticized by another white man. In the
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Wright grew curiosity to know more about Mencken and decided to read some his work.
2. Wright asked an Irish Catholic Mr. Falk for a library card, knowing that black man were not allowed in the library.
3. Wright understands the reason why Mencken was hated by his people, because he had talked about the equality between blacks and whites.
III. Supporting Paragraph 2: Wright became influenced by the books H. L. Mencken and others, which lead him to become a writer.
A. He bought English grammars for learning English, but he found the English from novels better than grammars.
B. The reading expanded his mind, the more knowledge he gained, which helped him understand the world around him.
C. Wright expressed reading was like a drug, a dope.
D. Wright found himself in a different world because he started to identify himself with books.
IV. Supporting Paragraph 3: Wright considers his mission in life and is worried about full filling it.
A. There were occasion where Wright felt trapped and stopped reading.
B. Wright thought in organizing the black people to fight against the whites, but encountered the memory where his grandfather was dying.
C. Wright came across the thought of submitting and living the life of a slave, but was