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Which excerpt from Black Boy best explains Wright’s childhood perspective of his father?
My mother warned me not to be fooled by my father’s friendly manner; she told me that the judge might ask me questions, and if he did I must tell him the truth.
I felt that if my father were going to feed me, then he would have done so regardless of what a judge said to him.
I was overwhelmed to realize that he could never understand me or the scalding experiences that had swept me beyond his life and into an area of living that he could never know.
[A]t last she managed to say that her husband had deserted her and her two children, that her children were hungry, that they stayed hungry, that she worked, that she was trying to raise them alone.

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The excerpt from Black Boy which best explains Wright’s childhood perspective of his father is the last one. The third option contains information that sets a clear characteristic of the father as a personality. This passage is the most suitable one because you can get to know the character not only by description of his traits, but also through his actions.

I felt that if my father were going to feed me, then he would have done so regardless of what a judge said to him.

Further Explanation:

Black Boy is a memoir written by Richard Wright who belonged to the black American community and it tells about memoir gives details about his upbringing. In this memoir, he has described his youth in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee and post that he eventually moved and settled in Chicago and there he established his writing career and he became involved with the “communist party” and his work in the Black boy gained critical acclaim in the United States because of the honest and to the point depiction of the racism going in the United States.  

When this memoir got released, it got a significant response both in a positive way and in a negative way from the readers as well as from the critics, This was also included in the Lending section of the American library and was labeled as 50 Outstanding books to read in the year 1945.  

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Answer Details:

Grade: High School

Chapter: Black Boy

Subject: English

Keywords: Black Boy, Memoir, Detailing, Upbringing, Mississippi, Arkansas, Chicago, Richard Wright, Communist Party.  

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