Richard Wright And The Library Card

Author : William Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781880000885
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Richard Wright and the Library Card written by William Miller and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As boy in the segregated South, author Richard Wright was determined to borrow books from the public library. His story illustrates the power of determination in turning a dream into reality. Full color.

Author : Jerry Spinelli
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780590386333
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Library Card written by Jerry Spinelli and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of four young people in different circumstances are changed by their encounters with books. Four humorous, poignant stories about how books changed the lives of several youngsters.

Author : Richard Wright
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061935484
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Boy written by Richard Wright and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment--a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering. When Black Boy exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, it caused a sensation. Orville Prescott of the New York Times wrote that “if enough such books are written, if enough millions of people read them maybe, someday, in the fullness of time, there will be a greater understanding and a more true democracy.” Opposing forces felt compelled to comment: addressing Congress, Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi argued that the purpose of this book “was to plant seeds of hate and devilment in the minds of every American.” From 1975 to 1978, Black Boy was banned in schools throughout the United States for “obscenity” and “instigating hatred between the races.” The once controversial, now classic American autobiography measures the brutality and rawness of the Jim Crow South against the sheer desperate will it took to survive. Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi, with poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those about him; at six he was a “drunkard,” hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise above the common lot. At the end of Black Boy, Wright sits poised with pencil in hand, determined to "hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo."

Author : Debbie Levy
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 0822567938
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Richard Wright written by Debbie Levy and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life and times of the influential African-American writer, from his early life as the son of a Mississippi sharecropper to his successful literary career, and his later life spent outside the United States.

Author : Maurene J. Hinds
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780766031654
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Reader’s Guide to Richard Wright’s Black Boy written by Maurene J. Hinds and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to Richard Wright's novel Black Boy for high school students, which includes relevant biographical background on the author, explanations of various literary devices and techniques, and literary criticism for the novice reader --Provided by publisher.

Author : Developmental Studies Center Staff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781576212585
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Richard Wright and the Library Card written by Developmental Studies Center Staff and published by . This book was released on 1995-12-01 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Margolies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Richard Wright written by Edward Margolies and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Wright's major themes in both fiction and nonfiction -- freedom, existential horror, and black nationalism--are here discussed for the first time in a book-length critical work. Although Wright's fame never diminished in Europe, at the time of his death in 1960 he had long since been dismissed in America as a phenomenally successful Negro author of the thirties and forties whose "protest" literature had subsequently become unfashionable. But, as Edward Margolies illustrates, Wright is important both for his literary achievements and as a Negro spokesman of the 1940's who fairly accurately pre­dicted the events of the 1960's, having studied their causes. Alienation, dread, fear, and the view that one must construct oneself out of the chaos of existence--all elements of his fiction--were for Wright a means of survival and constituted a bond with the existentialist authors Camus and Sartre with whom he was sometimes associated in France in the late forties.

Author : William Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Richard Wright and the Library Card written by William Miller and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated by Gregory Christie A fictionalised account to the early life of African-American writer Richard Wright which tells the story of how he was taught to read and discovered an interest in books and libraries. An interest greatly hampered by the segregation laws of the American southern states which prevented black people from borrowing library books. Illustrated throughout in full colour. Ages 3 - 9.

Author : Richard Wright
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9780878056330
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Richard Wright written by Richard Wright and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1993 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of interviews revealing Wright's racial experience and the themes and techniques of his own work.

Author : Andrew Clements
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481413546
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dogku written by Andrew Clements and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale in haiku of one adorable dog. Let’s find him a home. Wandering through the neighborhood in the early-morning hours, a stray pooch follows his nose to a back-porch door. After a bath and some table scraps from Mom, the dog meets three lovable kids. It’s all wags and wiggles until Dad has to decide if this stray pup can become the new family pet. Has Mooch finally found a home? Told entirely in haiku by master storyteller Andrew Clements, this delightful book is a clever fusion of poetry and puppy dog.