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"This was the culture from which I sprang. This was the terror from which I fled" (257).
-Richard conveys his factual and emotional views of the South
-Determination to leave sets him apart from others
"Did you run off from home?' I asked.
'Yeah. Four years ago,' he said.
'Well what have you been doing?'
'Nothing.'
That should have warned me, but I was not yet wise in the ways of the world or the road" (220).
Overall, Richard's emotions are different from others, so this separates him from the people in the South. However as he begins to realize his differences, and although he tries to change them, his emotions cannot be changed and stay with him throughout his time in the North.
-Richard ignores the boy's "warning" and continues to have a determined attitude
-His emotions overcome the truth of his environment
"I questioned her about whites and blacks, and I could not quite understand it. I wanted to understand these two sets of people who lived side by side and never touched, it seemed, except in violence" (47).
"Already my personality was lopsided; my knowledge of feeling was far greater than my knowledge of fact" (123).
-Wright can't tell/doesn't understand the difference between blacks and whites
-Richard only knows what he feels is true and considers his emotions as fact
-His greater understanding of his feelings than his environment separates him.
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"The truth was that I had-even though I had fought against it-grown to accept the value of myself that my old environment had created in me, and I had thought that no other environment was possible" (219).
The motif of factual vs. emotional truth contrasts Richard Wright's determined character from other blacks, illuminating his isolation from others and displaying how peoples' true feelings can separate them from majority.
-Richard has realized that the South has changed his emotions towards the world
-Foreshadows how he regards his surroundings in the North
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