Biography Precis -- Black Boy
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Black Boy , an autobiography by Richard Wright, is an account of a young
African-American boy's thoughts and outlooks on life in the South while growing
up. The novel is 288 pages, and was published by Harper and Row Publishers in ©
1996. The main subject, Richard Wright, who was born in 1908, op ....
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.... his rebellion against his father. He resents his father's the
need for quiet during the day, when his father, a night porter, sleeps. When Mr.
Wright tells Richard to kill a meowing kitten if that's the only way he can keep
it quiet, Richard has found a way to rebel without being punished. He takes his
father literally and hangs the kitten. But Richard's mother punishes him by
making him bury the kitten and by filling him with guilt. Another theme is seen
when his father deserts the family, and ....
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