Wright realization

Wright realization at the end of the novel is that “whites are as miserable as their black victims” and “If this country can’t find its way to a human path if it can’t inform conduct with a deep sense of life, then all of us, black as well as white, are going down the same drain…” What Wright is saying is that we are all unhappy and we make are self’s happy by going after the simple material things in life but we are still unhappy. As are unhappiness starts to overwhelm us we get angry and as are anger grows we lash out at are fellow men and in the end we end up worse them we were in the begging. I agree with what Wright is saying but I think that it is a cynical way to look at life because there are people that do try to make their like and the lives of the people around them better.

artistes and politicians at the opposite poles

Wright’s theory has some truth on how artistes and politicians stand at opposite poles. Artists, I feel, see the world in a abstract way and analyze thing in a way others can not see. The politicians are seen as people who say to want to change thing but it is more for personal gain. Though there are those people like FDR and Jon Edwards that do want to make the change and have and are doing it for the good and can see the world like an artiste. It is toughs people that make the biggest difference in the world. For the most part Wright is right in most of his thinking I find my self on the side of the politicians and cannot always see a meaning in art but for some forms of art I find it necessary in the way they say there message and the way they express them selves.

can one voice move a crowd to action

Yes and no. If I would go out and run for president I might be able to get five people to support me but when some one with more governmental influence and experience were to run they would amass thousands of people to support them. So if you have a strong voice and have the ability to back your self up then you can move a crowd to action. It can start with one get a close knit group of people and those people get more people them yes one voice can move a crowd but he has to be strong. This is like in Huck Finn when the man gives the speech on how it is not the way of the south and how they are not real men. He was strong enough to make the crowd stop and rethink what they were doing and had a strong argument that changed their minds. That is what you need to do to move a crowd.

the election

I find it vary interesting what Wright does during the election. Wright thinks that there is no difference between the two people running. Wright thinks that they are both liars and that they do not deserver to win so he will not vote for either. Instead Wright writes “I Protest This Fraud.” This is fitting for Wright to do because he has been through so much that he looks at thing with a different view. He sees it as they will do nothing for him so why should he vote them. He also knows that they are both trying to buy the votes of the Blacks, and he feels that if they see the blacks that way then why elected ether of them. I feel his response is justifiable but it does nothing to stop what they are doing he must do more and get others to help him.

Wright's thinking

In one of the paragraphs were Wright is taking to us as the author Wright talk about the “irony of the plight of the Negro in America.” In this Wright talks about how the Blacks are doomed to live in isolation and the whites want the basest of goals. He goes on to say that the blacks get angry that the whites condemn them for no reason but to suffer whale they go after trash. He is right in saying this and I agree with him. He is being vary vague in his reason for being disseminated against. He is right but there is more depth to the whites thought on why they discriminate against the blacks. Wright also talks about the whites going after trash this to is a good point that I agree with and think that it can go beyond the whites and to most black of the time and even today.

Wright's terror of the south

“This was the culture from which I sprang. This was the terror from which I fled.”
This comes, as Wright is about to be leaving for the north. He has been taking to Shorty about how Wright is lucky to leave the south. The terror, which Wright is talking about, is the fear the blacks have of the whites and what the whites will do if the blacks were to fight back. Wright is trying to go to the north were he will be a little more accepted by people but it is what Shorty says in the elevator the is why Wright wants to leave the south. Shorty says, “I’ll die here. Or maybe they’ll kill me.” It is that fear of being killed if you do something wrong you can be killed or you can be killed because the whites just do not like you like we see in the first optical shop Wright works at. Wright is going north to escape some of this terror of the south although he will never be free of this terror just yet.

subservience in Black Boy

Subservience in the way we see it in Black Boy is not a necessary part of life. No matter what you do though you will have a form of subservience but the way we see it in Black Boy is different. In black boy we see the whites making the Black inferior to them. This is not just subservience this segregation because even for the lower class whites are considered better then the blacks in the south. If we were to make the blacks even with the whites then yes there is some subservience needed in the form of a lower and middle class, which form the working class. There has to be some one at the bottom but should be an even playing filed between whites and blacks.

How to live in the south

Griggs tells Wright that he must learn how to live in the south. Griggs says this after Wright has had some problems with keeping a job with whites. Wright has problems with the way the whites treat him and the way blacks are to act in front of whites in the south. Griggs is telling Wright that he has to learn to just accept the way whites treat blacks if he does not want to be killed. Griggs is telling Wright something that Wright has known about but has not learned to accept. Wright does not want to be under the whites because that would be saying that he is inferior. This is a slim line to walk because of how dangerous it is for Wright because if he crosses the line he can be killed.

Wright's speech

In the end of chapter 8 we see Wright refuse to do a speech that was written for him by his principle. Wright how has written his own speech feel it would not be right to do the other speech although every one around him thinks he is foolish for doing this. His actions can be justifiable. Wright who is very much his own person does not like when people tell him what he needs to do. Wright will not accept the Jim Crow laws. He is a black wants the ability to express him self but he can’t and his is one way he can reject the thought of the time. Even though id jeopardizes his schooling he has to do this because that is the type of person he is. Personally I can understand Wright’s position and his thinking.

wright not wanting to get hit

Uncle Tom wants to beat Wright because Wright was being sassy with him. Wright thinks he did not do any thing to get a beating. Wright is right on this he was just saying that it might be a different time by a minute or two. This is not something to get hit for Wright was being logical and Uncle Tom took it the wrong way. Wright get angry at Uncle Tom because Wright did nothing wrong. Uncle Tom does not beat Wright because he sees that Wright is right about this mater. This is another example of the difference between Wright and his family. Wright family does not understand Wright he is different then they are he sees the world in a different then they do.

Wright's writing

Wright feels gratified after he shares his writing because he had completed something. Though out Wright’s life he has not been abele to complete things he states because of his moving and not having enough money to do so. This is the first time you see Wright thinking for himself with out the help of others. It is also monumental for Wright because he personally knew what he had done was special. It was also a new way for him the rebel granny’s rules. This is a point of change in Wright and his life he is now on a upward path in his education and his thinking.