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An important theme that runs through Richard Wrights autobiography, Black Boy, is Richard being groomed for a world that "would recognize him only as a black boy" and would engulf him with "its fear, its hate, its cowardice, its heritage of guilt and blood, its burden of anxiety and compulsive cruelty". Keeping in mind the hostile, violent and oppressive world that Wright pictures, a black youngster has to be properly groomed in his younger years (before, as Wright suggests, its too late to change him) to never allow his individuality to develop, to never aspire to be successful in business or to hold a higher post in any organization, and to act inferior in front of the whites, never challenging the "place" that they have assigned. ... In this light, it is clear that the black youngster should be advised to put his individual being aside and try to " grin, hang his head and mumble apologetically when (he) was spoken to". ...
Another advice that the black youth could have received is to never aspire for a higher rank in any company or to do something that would challenge the social quo.
Approximate Word count = 835
Approximate Pages = 3.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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