Black Boy EssayAnalyze the process by which Richard becomes independent and highlight your observations through insightful textual references that capture the power of Wright's narrative style. This novel focuses on a young black boy's struggle for identity in the Deep South. It is a powerful testimony to his life. In this novel, Wright uses writing to free himself from the prejudices he constantly faces. Little by little, he discovers that writing allows him to explore new ideas and expand his imagination. Not only that, but Wright discovers, through self-awareness, that he is confronted with the need to write his way out of the constricting world of race, religion, and family. Throughout his life, Richard faces the need for a loving family to help and encourage him, but his family somehow, unknowingly, helps him form his independence. Throughout his youth, he is confronted with the need for independence, for example from his neglectful father who seems to despise Richard. Richard's father even decides to abandon the family after having an affair with another woman to live with her and start a new family. When the parents face each other in court over financial matters, Richard expects his father to be humble, perhaps even ashamed, but his father acts confidently and gains the court's approval. “It was painful to see my mother cry and my father laugh.” The mother was in a state of emotional turmoil, but the father was still unsupportive. Richard's father is a pathetic example to Richard of a man who responded to the struggle of being black by drinking and womanizing. Richard's mother, on the other hand, could be considered a much better role model for him. She forces him to fight when he feels that people are unfair to him, she teaches him to be a fighter, for example, when he is beaten and his shopping money is continually taken away from him, his mother simply reacts by giving him a stick and saying "If these boys bother you, then fight." » She tries to make him tough and independent because she feels that is the only way for him to survive. Richard is often disciplined by church and religion through his grandmother. and his mother. At times he comes very close to being attracted to religion. "Listening to the vivid language of the sermons, I was drawn to an emotional belief, but as soon as I came out of the church and saw the bright sun and felt the pulsing life of the people in the streets, I I knew none of this was true and nothing would happen.