A sumary of “black boy”- richard wrigh
It´s a real story...a autobiography.That story is abaut a little black boy who has a lot of problems . first when he was four year old , he moved tomemphis with his family because one day , he was playing with the fireplace and the flames ate the house .
When they lived in memphis his father worked at night and slept during the day . one day richard and his brother found a kitten , who made a lot of noise and richard killed the kitten because his father didn´t sleep .After a time his father went to work and he never came back . His mother didn´t work and they didn´t get money for food. When his mother found a job he went to the store to buy food but one day when he went to the store a group of a boys beated he and he came back at his home without your money . when he opened the door without food and money his mother gave a stick and she said if he came back , she´ll beat he. That was a day when he learned the meaning of beat and hit .The time passes and other things also happen. One day when he was six years old , he Wanted to study and went to school and he want to study things but he couldn´t go to school because they couldn´t buy the books and pens, pencils , rules ,etc then his mother Tought him to read and a man tought he to count . but one day he went to school and there learn some things and learnt bad words too. He wanted to show them to people and he wrote these words in the windows of the house. When his mother saw that and made him cleaned that ,while the people looked at him.
One day Richard and his family went to live to arkansas with his aunt. When they travelled by bus Richard ask his mother some questions and he perceived than his grandmother was with they and Richard saw diference betwen black and white people , that was the first time than he knew a little about this racial diferences .When they left arcansas he went to school and lived well ,but one day his mother was ill and his uncle Clark care of the Richard .Then he started to work . he had a lot of different jobs and he lived with his family all the time but one day he decided to live alone.where he moved to live alone, he found a job in a factory ,he had a boss who wanted see a fight between Richard and another black boy . the black boys were friends but one day they sticked because the boss going to pay them when they sticked ,finished your friendly,and richard continued Worked. One day he wanted to read and he went to the library , but the black people can´t look the book then his white friend helped him and he can read that book and the others .One day your mother and your brother and your aunt asked him if he wanted to live in chicago, that city was he place where all his life he had wanted to live ,then he went off saying “ this was the culture from which i sprang . this was the fear from wich i fled.
Richard: black boy , who learned from their experience,he is some idealistic
Mother : worker , as good mother as she can Brother: responsible, rationalI like Richard because i know more about he and because he Always did what he wanted to do