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OUTLINE Richard Wright Richard Wright grew up in Mississippi and Tennessee, then ended up in Chicago at the age of 19. Self-educated, he turned to writing poetry and short stories. He received critical attention for his first book, Uncle Toms Children (1938). After World War II Wright, disillusioned with race relations in the U.S., settled permanently in France. His other works include Black Boy (1945), The Outsider (1953) and a posthumously published collection of stories, Eight Men (1960).Richard Wrights 1940 novel Native Son was a best-seller and is still considered a classic of modern American literature. One of the most influential African-American writers of the 20th century Black Boy (1945) is an autobiography by Richard Wright. The author explores his childhood and race relations in the South. Wright eventually moves to Chicago, where he establishes his writing career and becomes involved with the Communist Party. Black Boy (American Hunger) is a memoir of Richard Wrights childhood and young adulthood. It is split into two sections, Southern Night (concerning his childhood in the south) and The Horror and the Glory (concerning his early adult years in Chicago). PLOT 1.Summer time,I hunted for a job in a sawmill but was refused at last. 2.Ned Greenley,a classmate of mine,whose brother was killed by white people because of having sex with white prostitute.And it created a sense of distance between me and the world in which ilived. 3.My conflict with my family members. 4.I choose to read my own speech in stead of the pricipal gave to me. sentences “That’s the problem”,he said soberly.”The work’s heavy and dangerous.”He was silent and I knew he considered the matter closed.That was the way things were between whthites and balcks in the South. 白人对黑人讲话通常只说半句话，其中的意思要黑人自己慢慢领悟。而黑人则也会往往以沉默表明自己的意志。这反映了黑人与白人之间的矛盾关系 sentences I went home,hurt but determined.I had been talking to a “bought” man and he had to “buy” me.I felt that I had been dealing with something