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Analysis of Fighting Words In this analysis, I’m analyzing From Fighting Words by Richard Wright. As I read the story, I saw that Wright has no clear thesis, but as I read I noticed that the story gave me ideas. During my reading, I saw that Wright has a lot of themes, and symbols, and causes and effect. To start off, a literary device that Richard wright uses is theme. In Fighting words, he does not just use one theme he uses multiple themes. One of his theme that he uses is that you have to work when you want to obtain knowledge. An example from the story is “I want to ask you a…. I wonder if you’d let me use your card?” Another example for this is “That afternoon I addressed myself to forging a note.” Another them that used is Racism’s
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