The Fight

Richard Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an American author of powerful stories such as Uncle Toms Children. Most of his literature concerns racial themes. Racial themes such as struggles colored people dealt with in those times, the differences between a colored man and a white man and how both weren't treated equal. Wright's occupation was a novelist, writer, poet, essayist, and a short story writer. At age 15, he penned his first story "The Voodoo Of Hell's Half Acre". It was published in a local black newspaper called Southern Register. In 1923, he excelled in his school and was made class valedictorian of Smith Robertson junior high school. In 1927 Wright moved to Chicago after securing employment as a postal clerk, he read other writers and studied there form of writing during his free time. In late 1933 Wright joined the John Reed Club, the club was dominated by the communist party and as a revolutionary poet wrote numerous proletarian poems ("I Have Seen Black Hands", "We of the Streets", "Red Leaves of Red Books"). In 1937 he moved to New York were he forgot about the communist party members there after getting established. Wright became the Harlem editor of the Daily Worker. In early 1938 Wright received the story magazine prize of $500.00 for his short story "Fire And Cloud". Wright moved to Paris in 1946, and became a permanent American expatriate.

The narrator in "The Fight" By Richard Wright reacts calmly. He can protect himself but is worried about the outcome of the situation. The boys attacked the narrator by asking him questions and the narrator had a come back for each question. All the questions the boy asked he answered strong and with no respect. He wanted to show he wasn't scared and that he wont back down.