Analyze Richard Wright and his family situation Why can’t Richard’s family be supportive of him?

Option 2 Analyze Richard Wright and his family situation
Why can’t Richard’s family be supportive of him? What accounts for this dysfunction? Are they cruel to him, in your opinion? Can their behavior be justified, in your opinion? Discuss.
Richard seems not to fit in either the black world or the white. Why do you think this is? How does he see himself? What would be a perfect world for this young writer, if he could create it?
In the absence of a loving and supportive family, how does Richard learn about the world? How does he become so educated without such support? How does he develop a strong sense of self without role models?
#3 Compulsory discussion board work for all students What ingredients ensure success, even in a dystopian world?
Please go to the address below and read a short article by Professor Louis Gates on Madam CJ Walker.
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/100-amazing-facts/madam-walker-the-first-black-american-woman-to-be-a-self-made-millionaire/ (Links to an external site.)
What do you think motivated Madam Walker and Richard Wright to defy the odds and to go on with their incredible life journeys? What is it that each of these Americans had that sustained them through their tremendous struggles? Discuss what you think and what you know from your own lives.
What is the picture we see of life in the South after the catastrophe of the Civil War and its unfinished Reconstruction? How does this culture make it impossible for persons of color to achieve? Why are the white people in the South so afraid of those who are not white? What hinders progress toward equality and integration in this time and place?
Madam Walker’s story is another triumph of the spirit, and I encourage you to find out more about her and her influence during the Harlem Renaissance. She was a mover and a shaker of culture. Richard Wright presents us with a fractured and painful world that is awful to experience, even vicariously in print.
How does this book (Black Boy) belong in a course about the American Dream when it is the absolute American Nightmare? What does Madam Walker’s story, as she made her tremendous life changes, say about the human spirit in dark times?

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