Black Boy by Richard Wright 2

Frederick Douglass and Richard Wright wrote memoirs recounting their experiences with racism. Though their writing styles are completely different from one another, the subjects they discuss are similar. After reading each piece they have both made me empathize with their feelings, however different their lives are from mine. Their memoirs, My Bondage My Freedom and Black Boy, provide insightful images of the racist and cruel treatment these writers experienced. Despite all of their stylistic differences, …

…has a varied sentence length throughout. Wright has both short sentences and paragraphs. Throughout the pieces, Wright is much more personal and informal while Douglass strives and succeeds in writing a more factual account of his experiences. Both are successful in their expression of the unkindness they endured, their choices of expression were simply different. I left each piece feeling the harshness and seeing the vivid images both writers portrayed through different styles and techniques.