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Uncle Tom's Children Study Guide

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by Richard Wright
About 84 pages (25,216 words)
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Uncle Tom's Children Study Guide consists of approx. 84 pages of summaries and analysis on Uncle Tom's Children by Richard Wright. Browse the literature study guide below:

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Wright begins with his childhood house, literally on the wrong side of the tracks. Next to the railroad, his yard lacked greenery, being filled instead with cinders that he and his friends threw at each other in play-wars. When they try to play war with a gang of white children, the whites throw broken milk bottles. One cuts Wright on the neck, and when he complains to his mother, she beats him until he has a fever of 102 so he will never again mess around with white people. This lesson teaches Wright to detest his cinder yard, which before he had not thought of as mean or poor. He also learns to think of well-kept, green yards as symbolic of the white people he now fears. (read more)
      "The Ethics of Jim Crow," Part 1
      "The Ethics of Jim Crow," Parts 2-4
      "The Ethics of Jim Crow," Parts 5-9
      "Big Boy Leaves Home," Part 1
      "Big Boy Leaves Home," Part 2
      "Big Boy Leaves Home," Part 3
      "Big Boy Leaves Home," Part 4
      "Down by the Riverside," Part 1
      "Down by the Riverside," Part 2
      "Down by the Riverside," Part 3
      "Down by the Riverside," Part 4
      "Down by the Riverside," Part 5
      "Down by the Riverside," Part 6
      "Long Black Song," Part 1
      "Long Black Song," Part 2
      "Long Black Song," Parts 3-4
      "Fire and Cloud," Parts 1-3
      "Fire and Cloud," Parts 4-6
      "Fire and Cloud," Parts 7-9
      "Fire and Cloud," Part 10
      "Bright and Morning Star," Part 1
      "Bright and Morning Star," Part 2
      "Bright and Morning Star," Part 3
      "Bright and Morning Star," Part 4
      "Bright and Morning Star," Part 5
      "Bright and Morning Star," Part 6

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