Old man

The Old Man With a Guitar is probably my favorite painting. It was painted by Pablo Picasso during his blue period and features what else besides and old man with a guitar. To me it symbolizes many things. Its about the strain of life and how sometimes the only thing that you have to clench onto is your art, whether iits painting, writing, or your music. When things get bad, the only thing you can do is turn inward to what you love and rely on. It's the only way to keep your sanity and make sense of what you can't possibly understand.

artists and politicians

I actually don't agree with the idea that wright brings up in the novel Black Boy. In this novel he holds the idea that artists and politicians stand at opposite poles. While it is true that artists use their emotions to create and politicians use logic and limit emotion when making big decisions, that still doesn't mean that they are opposites. Both politicians and artists alike use rhetoric in whatever it is they do. Whether that be trying to pursuade people to side with your decisions for the country, city, or whatever area you have power in, or if you are an artist trying to prove a points through your own special means of doing so. They both are still people, and while artist tend to strike against the government, the core that they live by and use to get through life is still the same no matter how you look at it. That's why I disagree with what Wright says in chapter 19.

Justification for stealing

Richard Wright steals for money during his job that he got a the hotel. He states many reasons for doing this such as his will to move from the South to the North for his own safety. I feel that Wright does give many good reasons that justify his actions, I understand that anyone in his position, even I, would do the things that he does in order to get the money to leave. There is still something though that keeps me from siding with full justification of his actions as a good thing. I guess I just can't condone of someone stealing no matter what the situation.

The meaning behind Griggs

"Learn to live in the south." That is part of what Griggs said to Richard in the novel Black Boy. Richard was obviously not going to be able to do that. It wasn't in his nature. Learning to live in the South in the time of Black Boy means lying down and accepting the stereotypes that are put towards black men in those days. There is no way that Richard could lie down and take that. Richard rebellious-like spirit wouldn't let him ever do that. He is the type of person that couldn't take being step on.

Richard Right

Richard Wright has all right to refuse to perform the speech that was written for him by the principal. Even if the principal has only good intentions in mind, Richard deserved to say the speech which he written especially for this day. Since he was the one picked to perform the speech at graduation. Even if it's bad, Richard has the right to perform his speech. I couldn't understand working for hours on a speech that means a lot to me, just to have somebody tell me I can't do it because they're afraid that I'll say something that could be 'wrong' or offensive. I know I wouldn't stand for this at all. There is no way I would let anybody do it to me. That's Why I feel that Richard was justified in refusing to perform the speech written by the principal in exchange to perform the speech he wrote.

Uncle Tom

Wright is angry with his Uncle Tom for a few reasons. The main one being that one day Richard was threatening to beat him and punish him for something that he did. Richard got so upset with this for the main reason that Uncle Tom was still basically a stranger to him. He had only moved into their residence a few weeks ago.
Richard was awestruck that someone who didn't even know him, and vis versa, would actually threatened to beat him. He just couldn't understand the logic here and how he could think that someone he didn't know could that that he was better than Richard.