"Black Boy"

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This paper begins with a description of the story of a boy's struggle with racism. The author's approach to dealing with racism is discussed. Examples from the book are given demonstrating a defense of the author's position. The question of successful use of the text in conveying the author's meaning is also addressed.

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""Black Boy" is one of the most successful and powerful novels to emerge out of Black literature of 1940s. The novel is actually an autobiographical account of the author's life and his struggle with racism that existed in American society of his days. The author has explicitly described the pain and anguish of growing up black in the South of early 1900s. Since the Civil war and its impact was still fresh in the minds of the South's feudal class, the blacks suffered from an even more intense and devastating racial discrimination and segregation during the Reconstruction era. The author explains how he lived with his blackness and tried to put some meaning into his life when all odds were against him as a young child with a crippled mother."

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