Answers FL-1001380-English Honors 3 BAmerican Writer Richard Wright

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Which excerpt from Black Boy best explains Wright’s childhood perspective of his father?

My mother warned me not to be fooled by my father’s friendly manner; she told me that the judge might ask me questions, and if he did I must tell him the truth.

I felt that if my father were going to feed me, then he would have done so regardless of what a judge said to him.

I was overwhelmed to realize that he could never understand me or the scalding experiences that had swept me beyond his life and into an area of living that he could never know.

[A]t last she managed to say that her husband had deserted her and her two children, that her children were hungry, that they stayed hungry, that she worked, that she was trying to raise them alone.

Which excerpt from Black Boy best illustrates the effect that society has on Wright’s father?

My mother warned me not to be fooled by my father’s friendly manner; she told me that the judge might ask me questions, and if he did I must tell him the truth.

Back at home my mother wept again and talked complainingly about the unfairness of the judge who had accepted my father’s word.

Finally we could no longer pay the rent for our dingy flat; the few dollars that Granny had left us before she went home were gone.

From the white landowners above him there had not been handed to him a chance to learn the meaning of loyalty, of sentiment, of tradition.

Which excerpt from Black Boy best demonstrates the idea that Wright’s family feels frustrated and trapped in their financial situation?

And I did not want my father to feed me; I was hungry, but my thoughts of food did not now center about him.

My mother gave me a dry sandwich and I munched and stared, longing to go home.

At night there were long, halting discussions about our going to live with Granny, but nothing came of it. Perhaps there was not enough money for railroad fare.

It was winter and I would buy a dime’s worth of coal each morning from the corner coalyard and lug it home in paper bags.

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