Richard Wright The Rights To The Streets Of Memphis Analysis
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In The Story The Rights to the Streets of Memphis by Richard Wright he shows that life was hard as an African American in the late 1920s. He suffered poverty and violence growing up in the poor streets of Memphis. Growing up Wright face poverty in his life. On lines 60 and page 120 he explains that "she left me and my brother alone on the flat each day with a loaf of bread and a pot of tea". This shows that Richard wasn't well nurtured and was not getting get a lot of nutrients that he needed when he was growing up. This proves that Richard’s lifestyle and way of living was different than most children back in the 1920s and In Present Day. On lines 72 page 121 his mother told him that he would have to do the shopping around the house due