English Literature And Theory This blog contains the explanation of various critical theories that provide a new insight to view literature and interpretation of various literary texts.

Richard Wright was only nineteen years old. One day in the bank lobby while he was standing beside a desk, he saw a White man was badly criticized in a magazine. He was called a "fool". Wright wondered why this White man, H.L Mencken, was badly scorned by another white man. Curiosity drove him to read about Mencken and his writings. According to him, Negroes were allowed to use only the parks and playgrounds, but never a public library. As a matter of fact, an idea led him to take help from Mr. Falk, an Irish Catholic, often condemned for being his less biased about the Blacks. When he contacted, Mr.Falk advised the speaker to keep his aim secret from other Whites. Thus he secured a card. He wrote a note and made false signature. He went to the library. He overcame the librarian's suspicion. She gave him two books which inspired him to read further other books. He kept on reading one after another. Every book developed his thinking power about the life of the Negroes in the land of the White, He was immensely in agony. He say prejudices prevalent against the Negroes in the North America. He was able to tolerate the hunger but the vice against the black people was intolerable. Since the number of the Negroes was too thin in the South, he thought that it was not possible to organize Blacks ti struggle against the Whites. Open fighting would be equal to committing a suicide. He believed that in no ground educated Negro could be less competent than any White for his black color. Ultimately he decided he would live there and write against injustice, inhumanity, cruelty, prejudices, apartheid and much other social discrimination.