Black Boy is Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment—a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering.
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Native Son PDF Details
| Author: | Richard Wright |
| Original Title: | Native Son |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| Number Of Pages: | 504 pages |
| First Published in: | 1940 |
| Latest Edition: | August 2nd 2005 |
| ISBN Number: | 9780060837563 |
| Language: | English |
| Awards: | New York Drama Critics' Circle Award Nominee for Best American Play |
| Main Characters: | Bigger Thomas, Mary Dalton, Mrs. Dalton, Henry Dalton, Jan Erlone |
| category: | fiction, classics, cultural, african american, historical, historical fiction, literature, seduction |
| Formats: | epub(Android), audible mp3, audiobook and kindle. |
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Related Books
Books symbolize a great deal of the memoir’s most important ideas. Books provide an imaginative escape for Richard, whose life is lived in grinding poverty and amid terrible racial suppression and violence. They allow Richard to develop as an individual, and provide windows onto different parts of the world—places Richard has not yet visited, and can only dream of visiting one day, after he has left the South. They are hard for Richard to obtain (Ella, for example, lends him some, and Falk allows Richard to use his library card), but once Richard has them, the ideas within them can never be taken away. Thus books offer a respite from the difficulties of Richard’s life, and a means of escaping that life, of learning about the world, of attempting to set up a new and better home in Chicago. And, of course, it is Richard’s education in literature that allows him to write Black Boy itself. Thus the memoir is a story not just of Richard’s development as a young man, and of the racial conditions of the South. It is also a memoir of its own writing—of the means by which a person might narrate, and make sense of, his or her own upbringing.
Books and Novels Quotes in Black Boy
The Black Boy quotes below all refer to the symbol of Books and Novels. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:).Note: all page numbers and citation info for the quotes below refer to the Harper Perennial edition of Black Boy published in 2015.
I burned at my studies. At the beginning of the school term I read my civics and English and geography volumes through and only referred to them when in class. I solved all my mathematical problems far in advance; then, during school hours, . . . I read tattered, second-hand copies of Flynn’s Detective Weekly or the Argosy All-Story Magazine.
Related Symbols:Books and Novels
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Page Number and Citation:151
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Seventh, ma’am.
Then why are you going to school?
Well, I want to be a writer.
A what?
A writer.
For what?
Related Symbols:Books and Novels
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Page Number and Citation:167
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Son, you ought to be more serious. You’re growing up now and you won’t be able to get jobs if you let people think that you’re weak-minded. Suppose the superintendent of schools would ask you to teach here in Jackson, and he found out that you had been writing stories?
Related Characters:Wright’s mother (speaker), Richard Wright
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Page Number and Citation:192
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Look, Dick, you’re throwing away your future here in Jackson. Go to the principal, talk to him, take his speech and say it. I’m saying the one he wrote. So why can’t you? What the hell? What can you lose?
No.
Related Characters:Richard Wright (speaker), Griggs (speaker), The principal
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Page Number and Citation:202
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Where might you be from?
Jackson, Mississippi.
You act mighty bright to be from there.
There are bright people in Jackson.
Related Characters:Richard Wright (speaker), Mrs. Moss (speaker)
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Page Number and Citation:239
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I wondered what on earth this Mencken had done to call down upon him the scorn of the South. The only people I had ever heard denounced in the South were Negros, and this man was not a Negro. . . Undoubtedly he must be advocating ideas that the South did not like.
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Page Number and Citation:279
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Yet, deep down, I knew that I could never really leave the South, for my feelings had already been formed by the South, for there had been slowly instilled into my personality and consciousness, black though I was, the culture of the South. So, in leaving, I was taking a part of the South to transplant in alien soil, to see if it could grow differently, if it could drink of new and cool rains, and bend in strange winds . . . .
Related Symbols:Books and Novels
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Page Number and Citation:284-285
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Books and Novels Symbol Timeline in Black Boy
The timeline below shows where the symbol Books and Novels appears in Black Boy. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
...teachers Richard how to recite the numbers. Richard also begins picking his way through children’s books left on the street by schoolchildren.(full context)
...skin. She has a young girl board with her, a teacher named Ella. Ella reads novels frequently, and tells Richard the plot of the novel Bluebeard after Richard asks, continually, what...(full context)
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...he is supposed to be praying, Richard’s mind wanders, and he begins thinking of a book on native Americans he read recently. He drafts, quickly, a story of a young native...(full context)
Granny and Addie will not give Richard money for “earthly books,” meaning anything that is not the Bible, and they continue to feed him on a...(full context)
...Richard is nonetheless ashamed. Richard works hard that year in school, and reads whatever dime-store novels he can get his hands on in his spare time. As summer begins, however, Granny...(full context)
...searches for employment, in order to make enough money to buy food for himself, and books to read. He asks his fellow students if they know of any work helping white...(full context)
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...continues, and Richard looks again for better-paying work to enable him to eat and buy books. He gets a job as a water-boy at a brickyard, where he is bitten by...(full context)
...writer. Although his family finds this dream “foolish” and “weak-minded,” Richard has convinced himself, from novels he has read secretly, in his spare time, that the life of a writer is...(full context)
...marriage. After dinner, Richard and Bess talk for a moment, and she shows him her schoolbooks (she is 17 but only in fifth grade); Richard goes up to his room that...(full context)
...must be a writer worth reading, and decides he will get his hands on Mencken’s books from the public library, which is for whites only. Richard asks an Irish Catholic man...(full context)
...“Falk’s” note to the librarian at the Memphis library, and she agrees to lend the book to Richard “for Falk,” although she worries for a moment that Richard himself will read...(full context)
Richard begins staying up most nights reading. He checks out more books from the library, using Falk’s card, including novels by Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis. Richard does...(full context)
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...he’s leaving, and though they ask why he’s going to Chicago, and wonder if the books he reads have encouraged him to leave, Richard simply replies that he is moving north...(full context)
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