5|4|3|2|1 284-314

5 Comments

• Richard had to eat alot so he can gain 15 pounds so he can become a postal worker.


• Richards hours in the post office became less because of the great dreppession.


• Richard meets his Irish friend , friends and they become a group of blended friends
• Some of his friends didn't gte cash payments from their clients so instead they get sex from house wives so he follows in their foot steps.


• The Garveyites' doctrines do not appeal to Richard, but he admires their dignity and passion

4 Question

• Why didnt the Graveyites not appeal to Richard?


• Why did Richard follow in the mens foot steps?


• Why did Richard have to gain 15 pounds?


• Was Richard upset when he lost his job?

3 Vocabulary

• Regalia-the ensigns or emblems of royalty, as the crown or scepter.


• Rickety- likely to fall or collapse; shaky


• Affably- pleasantly easy to approach and to talk to; friendly; cordial; warmly polite:

2 Literary Terms

• Metaphor
• Personification

1 Over view Sentance

In this chapter Richard gets a new job but then looses it and he gets another which didn't always pay cash.

5|4|3|2|1 254-284

5 Comments

• Richard gets a new job where he cleans and runs errands
• Mrs.Moss finnaly accepted the fact that Richard didn't like her daughter.
• Richard was offered food by a white person because he was so skinny but Richard was to ashamed to take it.
• Maggie moves to Menphis because her husband abandoned her.
• Richard had went to the library and got some books.

4 Questions

• Why did Maggies husband abandon her?
• Why did she choose to go to Menphis?
• Does Richard mind that Maggie went to Menphis?
• Why was Richard ashamed to take the food he was being offered?

3 Vocabulary

• Ravages-To bring heavy destruction on; devastate
• Depicts-to represent by or as if by painting; portray; delineate
• Gaudy- brilliantly or excessively showy
• Sneered-To assume a scornful, contemptuous, or derisive facial expression

2 Literary Terms

• Foreshadowing
• Indirect Characterization

1 Over view sentance

In this chapter more of Richards family moves to Menphis and they keep him company.

5|4|3|2|1 222-254

5 Comments

• Richard met a woman named Mrs. Moss and she wants him to marry her daughter.
• Richard wasn't attracted to the Mrs.Moss daughter at all.
• But then Richard meets another young woman by the water front and they drink alchol.
• Richard had been used by a white man to move his illegal liquor and he became mad.
• Richard didnt have that much of a hard time in Menphis.

4 Questions

• Why was Richard so upset about Mrs. Moss trying to set him up with her daughter?
• Why did Mrs.Moss want Richard with her daughter?
• Why did Richard get upset when the white man hustled him?
• Is Richard gonna move out of Menphis?

3 Vocabulary

• Tangible-capable of being touched; discernible by the touch; material or substantial.
• Injuction- a judicial process or order requiring the person or persons to whom it is directed to do a particular act or to refrain from doing a particular act.
• Emphatically- uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.

2 Literary Terms

• Aliteration
• Foreshadowing

1 Overview Sentance

In these chapter Richards meets new people in Menphis.

5|4|3|2|1 194-222

5 Comments

• Richard got himself into lots of trouble in this chapter


• Richard takes a job in a clothing store.
• Richard drifts from job to job he drifts from job to job because he gets fired because of racism.
• Richard gets a job moping at a hotel.
• Richard goes to Menphis with the money from his earnings.

4 Questions

• Why did Richard chose to go to Menphis?
• What was Richard going to do in Menphis?
• Does Rivhard meet neww people in Menphis?
• Does Richard get into any trouble in Menphis?

3 Vocabulary

• Unwittingly -inadvertent; unintentional; accidental


• Brooding -preoccupied with depressing, morbid, or painful memories or thoughts


• Bashful-uncomfortably diffident and easily embarrassed; shy; timid


• Bleak -bare, desolate, and often windswept

2 Literary Terms

• Personification


• Indirect Characterizarion
  

1 Overview Sentance

In this chapter Richard changes his life and goes to Menphis.

5|4|3|2|1 160-194

5 Comments

• Richards mom was recovering but she was going to remain cripple for the rest of her life.
• Richard got exicted when he was told by the man from the newspaper that his story was going to be puslished.
• Richards grandmother wasn't happy thta he was publishing fictional stories in the newspaper.
• Richards mom was also upset that he was writting fiction in the newspaper
• Richards dream was to go to the North and write books and novels

4 Questions

• What did Richard do to provoke the dog into biting him?
• Why did Richard choose to write his story as Athmospheric, emotional,inatailively psyological?
• Why did everything Ricard do disappoint his grandmother?
• Why couldnt Richards mom and grandmother be happy that he was being published in the newspaper?

3 Vocabulary

• bewildering- To confuse or befuddle, especially with numerous conflicting situations, objects, or statements.
• retentative- having power or ability to remember; having a good memory.
• bleak- bare, desolate, and often windswept.
• dubious -doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt

2 Literary Terms

• Similie
• Metaphor

1 Over View Sentance

In this chapter Richards life makes a big change he actually got a job that he could keep.

5|4|3|2|1 142-160

5 Comments

• Now the taunting from the White people is getting to Richard and he gets into a fight on the first day of school.
• Richard couldn't find a job that his grandmother would approve of.
• A classmate suggest to Richard that he works for the newspaper.
• Richard took a job for Brother Mance who had lived next door to him.
• When Richard Grandfather dies he was sent out to his Uncle.

4 Questions

• Why was Richards grandmother so strict with him?
• Why did one of Richards friends suggest that he work for the newspaper?
• Why couldn't Richards grandmother tell Richards uncle herself that Grandfather had died?

3 Vocabulary

• Flouncing-to go with impatient or impetuous, exaggerated movements
• Gaping-to open the mouth wide involuntarily, as the result of hunger, sleepiness, or absorbed attention.
• Regality-Royalty; sovereignty; sovereign jurisdiction.
• Disembodied-To divest of material existence or substance.

2 Literary Terms

• Foreshadowing
• Metaphor

1 Overview Sentence

In what I read so far I have noticed that Richard wants to make a change with his life so he gets a job.

5|4|3|2|1 Pages 118-142

5- Comments

• Richard and Addie were intimately related to his problem with God and religion.
• In what I've read so far Richard gets his grandmother mad and he promises to pray every day.
• Richard also tries to ignore the white people rude comments that he is told because hes black.
• Richard went to a school where Addie taught and he thought that they were boring.
• Richard wasn't able to be alive in god completely because the religions story didn't make any sense to him.

4- Questions

• Why was Richard unable to bealive in god completly?
• Why did Richard Wright title his book Black Boy?

3- Vocabulary

• Nostalgia -a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time


• Vague-not definitely established, determined, confirmed, or known; uncertain


• Tantalizing-having or exhibiting something that provokes or arouses expectation, interest, or desire, esp. that which remains unobtainable or beyond one's reach


• Wallowing-To roll the body about indolently or clumsily in or as if in water, snow, or mud

2- Literary Terms

• Simile


• Direct Characterization

1- Overview Sentence

In this chapter Richard tries to ignore the White people tauntings and ridicule.