Black Boy Chapter 12-14

In the end of chapter 14 Wright is reflecting on leaving the South and getting to Chicago. He starts talking about how he was born in the south and after working extremely hard and experiencing so much in life he made it to the North. He talks about how he was born in the South and how horrible the South is for a black man to live. Throughout the first part of this book, he goes through more then a lot of people go through in their entire life. He says one line in the ending paragraph that represents his experience. "This was the culture from which I sprang. This was the terror from which I fled." The first part simply explains how he was born in the South and what he had to deal with. The second part is what I said at the beginning...him reflecting on leaving the South. The terror for Richard is everything bad he had to go through. His father leaving, his mother's stroke, the countless accounts of racism and violence he had to experience. Everything built up can be expressed in that one word, 'Terror.'