Comparing Richard Wright's The Outsider And Eight Men

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The books The Outsider and Eight Men were written by Richard Wright. Wright was born on Rucker's plantation near Roxie, Mississippi. He was the first child of Nathan and Ella Wright an illiterate sharecropper and school teacher. Wright’s father and mother were children of slaves. Wright uses the novel The Outsider to explore human reactions to oppression and domination, while mirroring his own feelings of marginality and the alienation from the land and people of his birth. While in Eight Men Wright the themes used reflect Wright’s views toward racism and his fondness towards the struggle of an individual in America. Throughout the novels, Wright uses colloquialism, symbolism and

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