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Black Boy:Life
Title: Black Boy:Life
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 2376 | Pages: 10.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Black Boy:Life
A quarter of a century was to elapse between the time when he saw
his father sitting with the strange woman and the time when he was to see
him again, standing alone upon the red clay of a Mississippi plantation, a
sharecropper, clad in ragged overalls, holding a muddy hoe in his gnarled ,
veined hands-a quarter of a century during which my mind and
consciousness had become so greatly and violently altered then when …showed first 75 words of 2376 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2376 total…was a trap.
Pg.230-233
“My first glimpse of the flat black stretches of Chicago depressed
and dismayed me, mocked all my fantasies. Chicago seemed an unreal
city whose mythical houses were built of slabs of black coal. wreathed in
palls of gray smoke, houses whose foundations were sinking slowly into
the dark prairie. Flashes of steam showed intermittently on the wide
horizon, gleaming translucently, entered to remain for years to come. The
year was 1927.
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