Catastrophic Reverberation: A Study of Richard Wright' Black Boy

Black Boy is about the catastrophic destruction of the frustration and humiliation experienced by a sensitive black boy not only in the South but also in the North; it deals with the depression of the blacks. Despite of all the apocalypses, yet there is a glimpse of hope for equality, freedom and happiness. Wright uses himself as the protagonist to portray a society where inequality and man’s inhumanity to man in the order of the day. With the insight we have about the blacks, we are made to see that the life of Richard Wright symbolizes the emergence from slavery and struggle towards freedom and equality in the New World through self-appraisal and self-identity.