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    Ready Reference Treatise: Black Boy
    Ready Reference Treatise: Black Boy
    Ready Reference Treatise: Black Boy
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    Ready Reference Treatise: Black Boy

    By Raja Sharma

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    The protagonist of the novel is a black American boy. He has to face color and racial discrimination right from his childhood.

    In the novel he describes how he was supposed to bow to the wishes of the family members, which he didn't, and how he struggled to come up in the society to establish himself as a writer. This journey of struggles and injustice is really heart touching.

    In this treatise you will find introduction to the author and the book, followed by characterization, plot summary, complete summary, and eventually the analysis of the novel.

    This is not the original text book, so I would request the students to read the original novel after reading this treatise.

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    Raja Sharma

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaja Sharma
    Release dateJan 26, 2013
    ISBN9781301731930
    Ready Reference Treatise: Black Boy
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    Raja Sharma

    Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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      Ready Reference Treatise - Raja Sharma

      Ready Reference Treatise: Black Boy

      Raja Sharma

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      Ready Reference Treatise: Black Boy

      Raja Sharma

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      Chapter One: Introduction to Black Boy

      Black Boy by great American writer Richard Wright was published in 1945. It is Richard Wright’s autobiography which describes his childhood, race relations in the South, and how he finally moved to Chicago.

      He describes how he established himself as a writer and got involved with the activities of the Communist Party in the United States.

      Wright’s childhood was spent in the vicious Jim Crow South. Later on when he moved to Chicago, he had to struggle with the Communist Party. To get to the bottom of Richard Wright’s book Black Boy it becomes necessary to know the social and historical contexts.

      The body of laws is referred to as the Jim Crow Laws in the book. Jim Crow was a crudely stereotypical character in white theater which was created to degrade blacks for the entertainment of the white audiences.

      In those days the blacks were not allowed to share the places such as restaurants, trains, movie theatres, and hospitals with the white. There was widespread segregation. Even in the social arenas such as marriage there was strict segregation.

      According to the Jim Crow Laws the blacks were compelled to be separated from the white. The laws created two separate societies, and there was highly unequal distribution of wealth.

      The blacks who were working in fields and on farms were thrown into extreme poverty and they felt deeply despaired. The whites took over the lands belonging to the blacks and they often exploited the blacks as laborers on the white owned farms.

      Later on Richard Wright came to know that these segregation laws were not exclusive to the South. He came to know about it when he went to New York. In South the whites were not ready to accept black emancipation, but in other parts of the country the laws were a bit lenient.

      To understand the novel Black Boy fully, it becomes essential to have the knowledge of American Communism that prevailed in the 1930s and 1940s. During those years the stock market collapsed and industry came to the point of stagnation. There was large scale unemployment in the United States. In some parts of the country there was even famine.

      Many of the intellectuals in America believed that this predicament was the result of the capital mode of production.

      The Communists in America believed in the dignity of the suffering people. They believed in the policy of equality, justice, solidarity, and conformity.

      Chapter Two: Plot Summary

      The book opens with the description of Richard Wright’s childhood. Richard Wright is four year old. His grandmother is lying ill in bed. He is forced to remain silent. Being bored the boy Richard begins to play with fire near the curtains. His play with the fire causes a huge fire and the family home in Natchez, Mississippi is burned down.

      The boy gets deeply scared and he hides himself under the burning house. Nathan, his father, pulls him out of the hiding place. His

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