Black Boy (12O - 16O ]

Summary:
Richard gets a job working with a white family. This woman doesn't think that Richard should continue to go to school, because she feels he won't become successful anyways. Because she said this, he quit working for her family and her. Richard then gets another job with another white family who is also rude towards him, but Richard keeps the job because he can steal food from them. Richard's mother begins to get healthy again so they start to go to church. Richard and several other boys get baptized and they don't really believe in god and they don't really feel different after their baptism. Richard's mother has another stroke. Richard and his uncle whom Richard lives with get into a fight, and Richard ends up cutting his uncle up with a razor. Richard writes a story and publishes it in the news paper and everyone is confused to why he is doing this. Even his mother didn't want him to do, she thought if people saw his story they wouldn't want to hire him. The publisher is the only one who motivates Richard to continue to write and publish his stories.

Quote:
"If you sell 'em, you're just helping white people kill you (Wright 13O )."

Reaction:
Richard didn't know that the magazines he was selling were written by the Ku Klux Klan. when Richard found this out he stopped selling the magazines. This quote also shows a little bit of American history. This just shows how America was and to look at America today just shows the drastic change.