Black boy questions & answers
QUESTIONS AFTER READING CHAPTER 6-8 BLACK BOY
a) Why did Uncle Tom react so violently when Richard told him the time?
Because Richard said I think this clock could be a few minutes off (or something close) and then Uncle Tom got angry which confused me very much. I thought it was so weird Uncle Tom goes at 5 in the morning comes to Richard’s room and asks him the time. When Richard sais it could be he gets angry and threatens Richard that he will whip him which to me makes no sense at all. So I only thought it was logical that Richard protected himself with the blades because it made no sense that he would be beaten (to me)
b) How do people react to Richard’s dream of becoming a writer?
Well white people think its hopeless they think he should be like what they think of black people, nothing. Someone that works in conditions almost likes a slave. That people think are stupid, and people think they are better than him. Pretty much everyone doesn’t like the idea of Richard be coming a writer no one agrees to Richard having dreams and thinking about leaving to Chicago and write. If I were one of Richards’s friends I would encourage him to go like that I would do to my friends. But there no one agrees to have dreams of becoming a writer and saying what you think and writing what you want.
c) How did Richard react at and after his graduation ceremony?
At the graduation he just decided to read his own speech. The principle of the school made a speech for him but refused to read it. Even all of his friends told him so his uncle and the whole school told him to but he wanted to read his own speech because maybe it wasn’t as good as the principles but it was what he wanted to say. After the graduation he was invited to a party but he didn’t go. Because he decided that he wanted nothing to do with any of his friends he just wanted to make money and move away to become a writer.
