Questions Black Boy 6-9

1. Why would Richard's environment around the second white home become more stressful than the physical work he has to preform?

2. What wall was Richard referring to when he complained about the white women?

3. Since Richard's mother began to recover did his behavior imporve or did he get worse?

4. HIs uncle said someone will break his spirit. Do you think his problems come from having too much pride or spirit?

5.When Richard was offered a deal to write why did his classmates doubt he wrote the story himself?

6. When Richard started cleaning an office for more money what lessons did he learn?

Summarizer 6-9

     In the autobiography, Black Boy, by Richard Wright, the protagonist Richard shares his story growing up as an African-American in Jim Crow South, depicting the economic and social struggles that were stereotypical for African-Americans at the time. It follows him through his youth, examining the hardships and obstacles faced by both Wright and his family. It is a story about the hardships and obstacles faced by a poverty-stricken family, and one boy’s determination to escape the prison created by these circumstances. Beyond this, Black Boy is a story about a life-long struggle with hunger. Wright suffers from hunger his entire life, not only for food but also for acceptance, love, and an understanding of the world around him; but most importantly, Wright possesses an insatiable hunger for knowledge.

Illustrator 13-A

I chose this picture to represent chapters 13-A because of the way the book ended. Richard Wright ends the book by resolving to use his writing to search for a way to start a revolution: he thinks that everyone has a "hunger" for life that needs to be filled, and for him, writing is his way to the human heart.

Researcher 10-12

Richard takes a job at the same hotel where his classmate’s brother had worked until he was murdered for consorting with a white prostitute. This situaion reminded me of Emmett Till.

"Emmett Till was visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi on August 24, 1955 when he reportedly flirted with a white cashier at a grocery store. Four days later, two white men kidnapped Till, beat him, and shot him in the head. The men were tried for murder, but an all-white, male jury acquitted them. Till's murder and open casket funeral galvanized the emerging civil rights movement."

http://www.biography.com/people/emmett-till-507515

Travel Tracer for 3-5

Where today's action begins ?

Today's action begins out in the neighborhood while Richard is becoming friends with the other black boys in his Arkansas neighborhood, finding that they share the same hostility to white people and the same racial pride.

Key Events Happen :

Today's key events took place in the church. During a sermon one day at church, Richard whispers to Granny that he would believe in God if he saw an angel. Granny hears him incorrectly and thinks that he has said that he has seen an angel. 

Key Events End :

Today's key events end at Granny's House. Granny and Addie make it clear that Richard is now truly dead to them. Richard’s mother, however, is proud of him for defying them. 

Vocab/Picture 6-9

1.Methodist church - a Protestant denomination founded on the principles of John Wesley and Charles Wesley 2.paralytic stroke - a sudden attack of paralysis caused by disease or injury to the brain or spinal cord. 3. voodoo - a polytheistic religion practiced chiefly by West Indians, deriving principally from African cult worship and containing elements borrowed from the Catholic religion.

Researcher 3-5

In these chapters, the most remarkable things that stood out to me, was the fact that Richard was able to make friends with some of the other students at his school. I couldn't find any news articles on a significant individual who had the same story as Wright, so I just searched how to counsel a student with a shyness issue. http://www.reneegilbert.com/shyness.htm#****Shake_Your_Shyness:_Workshop_Series LINK^^