Blog – Explain Wright’s response to his mother’s paralysis.
Wright's response to his mother's paralysis is a period of fear and self-realization. The experience was his introduction to the real world. When his mother fell ill, he first got a job at the roundhouse and then a café. Then they moved three times, and one morning his mother was paralyzed. And then his mother's family came to help support them. Wright became conscious of how much money they did not have, and he quit eating. Then he moved, with his mother, back to Granny's house, and at first his mother got better, but then she got worse. The biggest realization Wright came across was that he was helpless. He was helpless against the whites and fearful of the world without his mother, who was his sole protector against a society that hated him and his kind. Without his mother, a woman who played both a motherly and fatherly role to him, he realized that even though he was a young man, he was just a boy. Eventually, he adapts, and as we see when he fights the other classmates when he lives with his uncle, he understood how his race and his peers were going to judge him. But we also see that he is still very much afraid - he won't sleep in the bed that somebody had died in. Wright’s response to his mother’s paralysis is a period in which he tries (and needs) to grow up faster than normal, but his dependence on his mother causes him to not be able to.
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The only thing I didn't really like was your summary at the beginning because it just didn't seem to add to the whole blog. On the whole, however, I found the blog to be very good. I like how you not only tied his realization of helplessness to his feeling in regards to whites but also in with his childish fear of the room the child died in and in his fights against his classmates. Very good tie ins that made the blog strong.
Josh,
I think that self-realization is a great way to put how Wright's life was when he mother became paralyzed. I happen to agree with Seth in that the summary that you put in doesn't really fit into response to the question. It could work if it was at the beginning, but since it is in the middle I don't feel like it fits. Wright really had to grow up very fast even though he was a young boy, and I like that you said that the mother had to take both a, "motherly and fatherly" role. You really were able to tie everything together. Good Post!
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