Big Black Good Man

In our life we let people determine how to treat us because of our race and our looks but that isn’t the case. We need to treat everybody equally no matter what their culture or how they look. A writer named Richard Wright is known to be the best African-American writer for this “classic” book that he wrote, and “Big Black Good Man” is one of them. This story is written as a third person narrative but filled with Olaf Jenson’s point of view. Olaf also shares his life and past experiences and how reality has hit him since another character named Jim comes into his life. Jim really opens Olaf’s eyes and he make him see the true world that is out there. This story involves a judgement between a black and a white man and there basically against each other.

In 1957, discrimination in the United States and in our society is a huge problem. Knowing Richard Wright, he grew up in the south and knew before he left Chicago to deal with issues because of his skin color. The “Big Black Man” represents how White people felt back then. The main character Olaf