Comparing the Innocent Criminal in Black Boy, Uncle Toms Children, Nat

The Innocent twist in dingy Boy, Uncle Toms Children, Native Son, and The Outsider It is probably a mere accident that I never killed, Richard Wright commented offhandedly in an interview with Robert Moss (596). aft(prenominal) reading several of Wrights works, one can easily understand what Wright gist by this statement. In his books Black Boy, Uncle Toms Children, Native Son, and The Outsider, Wright suggests that white society has change black people into criminals. The source of this claim comes from Wrights own(prenominal) experiences as a Negro in the Deep South. Whether pushed to evil from necessity or for personal fulfillment and self-realization, the protagonists of Wrights works are innocent criminals they know that the ultimate crime for which they are being punished is the crime of being black. Circumstances created by a racist social order place the characters in unbearable positions that coerce them into villainous activities. In his autobiographical nove l, Black Boy, Wright supports this theory using himself as an example. In the tradition of the slave autobiography, Black Boy provides elaborate of Wrights life from early childhood to his arrival in Chicago. As Joyce Ann Joyce says, Black Boy ...is a realistic and poetic account of the hunger Wright endured as a child, his closeness to his mother, the effect of his mothers illness, his problems with his father, his fathers desertion, the violence he experienced from his mothers relatives, his making love of words and books, his discovery of racism and his developing racial consciousness, his fight against his mothers and grandmothers religion, his meagre education, ... and the development of his individuality... ...chard Wright. bleak York Harcourt, 1969. Rpt. in Richard Wrights Native Son Modern unfavourable Interpretations. New York Chelsea House, 1988. Moss, Robert F. Caged Misery. Saturday Review. Jan. 21, 1978, 45-7. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 14. Detroit Gale, 1980. Skerrett, Joseph T., Jr. Composing big Wright and the Making of Native Son. in Richard Wrights Native Son Modern unfavorable Interpretations. New York Chelsea House, 1988. Wright, Richard. Black Boy. New York Harper, 1944. _____. How Bigger Was Born. Saturday Review. June 1, 1940, n.pag. Rpt. in Native Son. New York Harper, 1940. _____. Native Son. New York Harper, 1940. _____. The Outsider. New York Harper, 1953. _____. Uncle Toms Children. New York Harper, 1936.