March 16

Wright’s realization at the end of Black Boy is that the world is not and is never going be what he wants. He is never going to find the perfect place to live. By living in Chicago and the South he realizes that both places have downsides and they are not fully to his liking since they are not what he envisions as perfect. Wright also realizes that the people around him are not like him. He struggled throughout most of the book with relationships and by the end he realizes that he does not form the same types of relationships that other people do. On the last page of the book, Wright decides that the only ways to express his views to other people is to write them in words. He says that if people respond, even at all to his writings, then he will write more. It will be a sign to him that people understand him and his life experiences through his writing.