Black Boy | Chapter 6 - 9 | Travel Tracer

Chapter 6:
[160 - 163] This is the beginning of Richard Wright's perspective on society members, outside of his family. He experiences true racism towards him when he gets his first job. For instance, the woman employer asked Richard, "Do you steal?" referring to her other employees, who were African American. While, he also experiences his first taste of freedom, making money - having a job.
[166 - 172] Wright is at the church and his grandmother tells a false story of Richard seeing a higher power. In return, pressure was put on Richard to be part of the church. That led to Richard Wright being baptized at the church with no true meaning. Yet, Wright was angry but ecstatic that his grandmother would "off his back" about church.
[173-177] Wright gets in an encounter with his Uncle Tom. Tom threatens to whoop Richard. The significance is that, moments like that was an example of Richard wanting to taste freedom and get older quicker.
Chapter 7:
[178 - 180] Wright quit his other job, in the previous chapter, and he finds another job that leads him to the quit that job, because of an incident with the dog. It shows his uncomfortably with his surroundings.
[180-] Wright decides to go back to school and educate himself. Eventually, he ends up in a news stand business and he wrights a paper for the newspaper. This is the beginning of his love for writing.
Chapter 8:
[188 - 190] During this part of the summer, Richard no longer has a job. So, he goes back to school post Summer. Which in return, leads to Richard writing for the school newspaper diligently.
Chapter 9:
[199 -200] Wright encounters conflict with a group of white men, who beat him because he did not call them "sir."
[202 -203] Wright gets a pep talk from his friend on how to act properly around white people - basically a "Guide to being a negro."
[205 - 212] Wright finds a job at a corporation and experiences discrimination from his colleagues, which leads him to him being beat and him quitting his job.