Comparison Of Richard Wright's Life And Work

Richard Wright is known to be a genius inspirator to many writers because of his style of writing and deep philosophy on how the world acts upon african americans. Being an african american, Richard Wright had to do whatever he could to pursue his gift and passion of speaking and writing. Richard Wright's early life is made through sheer struggle and how he achieved and conquered those struggles to make something of himself. Richard Wright was born on September 4th, 1908, in Roxie, Mississippi. He was the grandson of slaves and son of a sharecropper. “Richard Wright” Wright’s father left him and his mother when he was five. It became much more difficult for his mother to take care of Wright alone and therefore began his struggle with his life. Wright was schooled in Jackson, Mississippi where Wright was only able to acquire a ninth grade level education,
Wright is also a known meticulous journal keeper. All of Wright’s journal entries uncover a deeply personal side of his life kept hidden from the public until his death. This proof of his captive inner personal side also reveals the meaning behind the poetries by Wright, such as “I Have Seen black Hands” and “Between The World and Me” (Richard Wright Reader (Book Review))” Wright’s poem “I Have Seen black Hands” reveals his power to express the explicitly revolutionary radicalism of the African American lives. In his poem “Between The World and Me” Wright talks of lynching in the deep south. The description and point of view of that of a black man expresses the the violence Wright has come to grow on because of the White man fears. The poem supports Wright’s stories of Uncle Tom’s Children that would inform the violentness and indifferent torture to the political protest, as would Native Son later on. (On Richard Wright’s