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Suffering In Life Exposed In Richard Wright's Black Boy
Throughout life there will be hard times to test man. Sometimes man goes through troubles that will test them. In Black Boy, Richard Wright suggests that in one’s life there will be struggles that need to be dealt with to achieve their dreams.
“The white man did not whip the black boy, my mother told me. He beat the black boy. (pg 24) it is hard for African Americans to live in the south at this time with racism and prejudice.
“Then for God’s sake, learn how to live in the South” (pg 183). This shows that Richard struggled to live in the South as an African American in the early 1900’s.
“Embedded in me was a notion of the suffering in life” (pg 115). This tells us that Richard has accepted that there will be suffering in life that he cannot

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