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Richard Wright’ story in Black Boy is a journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crowism that exited in the south. He was a witness to the tragedy from childhood to manhood of prejudice America. It clearly shows how life was for a young black male in Southern America. Black Boy is both an accusation of the American racism and a story of the author’s development. As a child growing up in the …

…too much and how society was really acting he just could not take it. He agreed with Communist political philosophy but not with its practice. Wright’s search for himself, a theme that runs throughout his life of rebellion, could not be found in his new little group of friends either. Wright did not want to sacrifice his individuality to prove his “loyalty.” He finally resolved, as he always had, to go his own way.