Comparing Oprah Winfrey And Richard Wright's Black Boy
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The struggles a person goes through does not define who they are, but instead it shows how they handled and overcame them. Oprah Winfrey once said, ”It doesn’t matter who you are, where you came from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.” Oprah and Richard Wright's background were not exact, but similar in their challenges. Both people did not let their past effect their future, they wanted to better for them selves. They turned their lives around and became someone. Richard Wright’s biography “Black Boy” talks about his life growing up and the things he was going through. After his father leaving, he has to become the man of the house. There were many hard times and so much responsibility on Richard and his family. It makes me think about what he was feeling and what was going through his head. In my opinion he was just living day by day because he wasn’t to sure what was happening next.…show more content… Born to teenage parents who separated, her grandma took care her until she was six, then she moved with her mother. Ms. Winfrey was sexually abused for some years and at fourteen she got pregnant and gave birth to a baby boy who died two weeks later. After she settled with her dad, Oprah's life was taking a toll when she won Miss Black Tennessee beauty pageant and a scholarship. I think after all these things happening to her she didn't let it put her down, she took the bad and turn things around for good. In my opinion she took things hard but kept going hoping for there was something better waiting for