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The FightRichard Nathaniel Wright was am American author dominant of controversial novels, short stories, and also non-fiction.Most of his literacy concern racial themes. His work helped redefine discussions on race relations in America in the mid 20th century. Born on September 4, 1908 and then later on in life he passed on November 28, 1960. Wright was born on the Rucker Plantation in Roxie, Mississippi. He was the first of two sons to Ella Wilson.His first story "The Voodoo of Hell's Half-Acre" at the age of fifteen and was published in Southern Register, a local black newspaper. In 1923, Wright excelled in grade school and was made class valedictorian of Smith Robertson Junior High School. Determined not to be called an Uncle Tom, he refused to deliver the assistant principal's carefully prepared valedictory address that would not offend the white school officials and finally convinced the black administrators to let him read a compromised version of what he had written. Later on that year Wright registered for Mathematics, English, and History courses at the new Lanier High School in Jackson. But couldn't keep attending classes because he had to work to maintain his family expenses. His rough childhood in Memphis and Mississippi got him that expression of the American racism. In 1927 after getting a stable job in Chicago he moved their on his spare time he would read other writers work and analyzed their writing style. Soon after the Great depression took over and he was forced to go on relief in 1931. Then in 1932 that's when he started attending meetings of the John Reed Club. The club was controlled by a communist party so he expanded his relationship with other parties. Soon after that he moved to New York and move forward or take the lead in new ties with Communist Party members after getting established. By 1935 he completed his first novel "Cesspool", published as "Lawd Today" 1963. In 1936 his story "Big Boy Leaves Home" was accepted for publication in New Caravan. In February he started working with his National Negro Congress,and in April he chaired the South Side Writers Group whose membership included Arna Bontemps and Margaret Walker.While Wright was at first pleased by positive relations with white Communists in Chicago, he was later humiliated in New York City by some who rescinded an offer to find housing for Wright because of his race. To make matters worse, some black Communists denounced the articulate, polished Wright as a bourgeois intellectual, assuming he was well educated and overly assimilated into white society. However, he was largely auto-didactic, having been forced to end his public education after the completion of grammar school. In 1937, Richard Wright moved to New York, where he forged new ties with Communist Party members there after getting established. He worked on the WPA Writers' Project guidebook to the city, New York Panorama (1938), and wrote the book's essay on Harlem. Wright became the Harlem editor of the Daily Worker. In the short story " The Fight" by Richard Wright the narrators roll was played by a young boy from Jackson who's biggest concern is how is he going to gain the respect from the boys. The message that is being portrayed in this story is that boys are very territorial they have to have a real intense fight so that they can gain their respect and be left alone. The narrator in the story gains his respect by confronting the boy and answered him back the came just about four inches apart from one someone eagerer thinking they were not going to fight push them into one.He then pulled up his right hand and caught him in the mouth. The crowed was yelling and so close that it was so hard for me to lift up my arm. The narrator fought like a tiger so that they will fear him because if he did not win this fight he would have to fight a new boy each day and that's what he did not want to do. After school he waited around to see if he saw they boy so that they can fight again but no he had won the fight and he did nit have to fight again. On his way home he found a cheap ring with prongs holding on to this red stone he removed the tone and left the rings prong sticking out before he could think about it it had spread in the school that he had this ring. If I was in the characters position I dont really know what my reaction will be because i am not a fighter I am a very peaceful person but I only know to take so much from someone. But sometimes these are things you have to do to earn your respect because people under estimate you when they don't know you. For boys it is very diffrent for them it is necesary to earn their respect he has to fight
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