Black Boy Capítulo tres

Chapter three of Black Boy was very interesting. We were presented the question of what Wright's response was to his mother's paralysis. I thought that maybe Richard's fright of the "ghost" in the bedroom may have been heightened by the fact that he was scared of death because his mother was so close to it. He was afraid she would die, and maybe the thought of dying and death made him even more frightened of the idea that this boy had died in his room. Wright talks about how his mother's paralysis set the tone for him emotionally, how he associated her suffering with many negative things such as hunger, ignorance, poverty, and helplessness. He grew somber in spirit and began to examine things that should have been joyous more closely. But overall, this experience made him more observative, grown-up, skeptical, and critical.