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The aim of this paper is to attempt to show how and why in Richard Wright's Black Boy. Parents, relatives and society at large try to subdue Richard, the protagonist by the use violence. The aim behind the repeated castigation of the chid by his parents, relatives and other people is to subdue him and suppress in him any impulse towards individuality, liberty and transgression of the prevailing white social order as it existed in the first half of 20th century segregated America. Indeed, any time the child Richard transgressed the prevailing order, in or outside the community, he was beaten severely and left alone to experience loneliness and terror of being abandoned. Total submission of the child by violent beatings, fear and terror was an unconscious and undeclared objective of parents, relatives and other members and the Black community. Indeed, the child had to internalise his inferior social status very early through repeated beatings so that he learns not to transgress the Jim Crow Laws and so survive in racist America.
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