THE LIBRARY CARD

THE LIBRARY CARD

-Richard Wright

·        Theme:

ð This autobiographical essay is about the struggle of Richard Wright to learn writing and to get to read books.

ð This essay tells us that how black people were exploited in the USA.

ð This essay tells us where There is will there is way. If we have strong determination nothing could be impossible in our life. 

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Literal Comprehension:

In this autobiographical essay Richard Wright presents his struggle to get to read books. Being a black, he was not free to get to read and he was exploited by the whites yet, he struggles and gets success in life.

                        One day, Richard Wright got to read a newspaper additional and he was surprised when he read in which the writer Mencken was severally criticized by a white editor Mencken was a white writer from North and he was against the discrimination over black in the south. Richard wright desired to read his books to know why he was criticized. He asked for the library card to his master, but if it was know the master would also know be punished. Being soft heard, his master provided him the library card with a signature and read them. He again forget his signature and read more books from them he realized the rad pain of his life. He knew that why the blacks are exploited there. He knows the real condition of his mother. He also leaned English words could be used us a weapon. Even the simple words could express deep feelings. Then he hoped to leave the anti-black south and he left for the North America. There, he got freedom to read and become a great writer.

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Interpretation:

The writer may be trying to tall us education is supremely ornament of life without education man can't understand the real world, This essay also tells us that where there is will that is way. Richard wright, being a Negro servant, couldn't get to read but he forget the signature of his boss and hot to read books. Because of the novels, he felt his life was completely changed.

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Critical Thinking:

I want to speak English fluently. But by reading grammar of English, I could improve my spoken after reading this chapter. I got the knowledge that from novels language could be learned easily. I also remembered the time when Lincoln had to struggle for the freedom of blacks in the USA.