"Black Boy" Response

Hello readers,

I'm sitting here and blogging, even though I feel like crap, or more accurately, my throat does.
Ah well.

So, for those of you who haven't read 2/3rds of the way into the book:


SPOILER ALERT! Be forewarned, the following text might contain spoilers!
There.

Now, on with the blog.

           I actually really like this book (as evidenced by the fact that I read 2/3rds of the way into the book...). It's a far cry from "The Scarlet Letter". I don't want to say it was boring, but I mean COME ON, the guy spends 3 pages describing a BROOK!! This one, however, is different, and I like that. I also like the way that he did an in-depth analysis of everything he's feeling at the moment. It really brings across his emotions, and the way he was thinking at the time. Consequently, it really makes you sympathize with the character, despite the fact that's it's almost as if everything Wright has done in his life has been to make his younger self unlikeable. He also is able to justify all of his actions with a motive, and I think that also helps to make him more sympathetic. For example, the system he rigged in the movie theater was justified because he was trying to get enough money to go north and escape the persecution of the South. It also has that sort of gritty, realistic quality afforded to it by his detailed description of how horrible white Southerners are to him.

Well, that's the blog for this week. Stay tuned for more, feed the fishies, and check out the RSS feed.

-- Noah

P.S.

Word of the week:
    Prosopagnosia:
    A disorder in which one is unable to remember faces