A Comparison of Self-realization in Black Boy, Native Son, Rite Of Pass

somber Boy, primeval Son, Rite Of Passage, and The Long Dream Self-realization of a low Man The white world dominates the political and social spirit in all of Richard Wrights books as Wright portrays the never-ending struggle that a four-year-old black male faces when growing up in the United States. Wrights Black Boy, Native Son, Rite Of Passage, and The Long Dream are all climb up by the common theme of self-realization. In all four books, the cease occurs when a black youth realizes his position in society and the terrible future that lies ahead of him. In his autobiography Black Boy, Wright reveals his personal date as a black maturing in a white society. The butt against of achieving self-realization is marked by all the verbal and physical battles that the chief(prenominal) characters in Wrights books must fight. He makes clear what all his characters experience, when he writes in Black Boy, I had never in my life been abused by whites, but I had already become as conditioned to their reality as though I had been the victim of a thousand lynchings (34). The the right way presence of whites in a black youths life is embedded since parentage but emerges clearly during the period of self-realization for the black youth In Native Son, the main character, bigger Thomas, lives in a one-room apartment with his mother, brother, and baby in a black ghetto on the South Side of Chicago. Bigger sees whites through hate- and jealousy-filled eyes. Feelings of inferiority to whites consumes Biggers life. However, he tries to help his family by working for a wealthy, well-respected white family. But, in a moment of fear and hysteria, Bigger commits a murder that alters his life forever. Compared to the three other ... ... W. W. Norton and Company, 1982. 671-673. Marcus, Steven. Appiah 35-45. Macksey, Richard and Frank E. Moorer, eds. Richard Wright. Englewood, New tee shirt Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1984. Margolies, Edward. Native Sons. Philadelphia J. B. Lippincott Company, 1968. McCall, Dan. Wrights American Hunger. Appiah 259-268. Stepto, Robert. Literacy and Ascent Black Boy. Appiah, 226-254. Tanner, Laura E. Uncovering the Magical camo of Language The Narrative Presence in Richard Wrights Native Son. Appiah 132-146. Thaddeus, Janice. The Metamorphosis of Black Boy. Appiah 272-284. Wright, Richard. Black Boy. New York Harper and Row, 1945. _____. The Long Dream. New York Harper and Row, 1987. _____. Native Son. New York HarperCollins, 1993. _____. Rite of Passage. New York HarperCollins, 1994.