Similarities Between Black Boy And Separate Pasts By Melton Mclaurin

There are two races, African Americans and Whites that are seen and treated different. In this books, Black Boy and Separate Pasts are two distinguish books about African Americans and Whites on their daily life in the 20th century in the United States. In Back Boy by Richard Wright, an African American from Roxie, Mississippi, is about his childhood while living in the South with his family how he became all the obstacles that got on his way to come to the North when he was trying to make a difference. In addition, some obstacles were about segregation between his color and whites how they were perceived. In Separate Pasts by Melton McLaurin, a White man from Wade, North Carolina, is a story about his childhood in the 1950s when segregation existed among

He came from a family that had punishments for disciplinary they did not tolerate this at all so therefore there will be consequences. This one afternoon Wright was looking for something to do right after being neglected by his mother he saw interest on burning straws then he was curious to see the curtains be on fire. So he did and the whole living room was on fire. “I was lashed out so hard and long that I lost consciousness. I was beaten out of my senses…..” (Wright 7). He was in terror and shame for what he did, he was just curious to see what will happen if the curtains were on fire.
His fear for whites happen when this white police beaten up this black guy. “And when word circulated among the black people…. that a “black” boy had been severely beaten by a “white” man… I assumed that the “white” man must have been the “black” boy father…. But then mother told me that the “white” man was not the father…. He beat the ‘black’ boy” (Wright 24). This caused Wright to look at Whites in a totally different perspective then he did before. He saw Whites as harmful people, but then later he realizes that some whites are kind hearted like the white officer who helped