BlackBoy

• Publishing information Published in 1945
 * __[[image:175px-Black_Boy_Cover.jpg align="left"]]Major Works__**

• __Plot Summary__ Black Boy is the chronical adventures of author Richard Right growing up in Jackson, MIssissippi. Through his childhood events he experiences hunger, pain, racism, violence, struggle, death, loss, and a whole other mix of emotions and traumas but throughtit all he rised to become a great author. Another significant part of his story is the fact that everyone said that he couldnt do it because he was a poor black boy from Jackson.

• __Symbols & Themes__ -//Hunger//- Throughout the book, Richard is always hungry, but there are two different types of hungry he experiences. The hungry for food is constantly with him because he never has enough money for a full meal. Also he adusts to being hungry and believes it makes him stronger. Another type of hunger is the hunger for knowledge. As Richard learns to read he wants to devour all the literary works that he can get his hands on. He always starts writing short stories at a short age.

-//Violence//- Everytime he Richard approaches Granny with his talk of blasphemy she hits him. His Aunt hits and beats him. He is constatnly cursed, beaten, and abused. Richard realizes though that he must also respond to violence with violence to gain respect from people. Everytime he went to a new school he always got into a fight the first day because he would defend himself from other boys. He also defends himself from his family members threatning his Aunt Addie with a knife and his Uncle Tom with two razor blades. The one time, however, where Richard does not want to use violence is when he fights Harrison because Olin told him of his murderous intentions.

-//Reading//- In my opinion, reading is the only thing that keeps Richard sane and going. His urge to read book after book take over any emotions that he feels and fills his hunger physically. Reading and his hunger are closely allied. He even risks caught by whites taking library books using Mr. Faulk's library card. • Critical response When Black Boy was published in 1945, it created a sensation that prompted more books about the truth of what really happens. All in all his book was a huge sucess

• Awards and/ or literary importance none