Big Boy Leaves Home by Richard Wright - Analysis
Themes and recurring elements · Making fun of each other's mothers · Singing about food · Singing about freedom · Big boy is shrewd · Fighting techniques · Segregation · White prejudice against blacks · Whites have swimming pools and blacks don't · Children playing · Automatic suspicion of young black boys · Killing · Lynching · Mutual help within the black community · Corn pone Style and Devices · Reported speech of blacks is phonetic "Whut it say?" "NO TRESPASSIN," read Lester. "Know whut the mean?" "Mean ain no dogs n niggers erllowed," said Buck. "Waal, wes here now," said Big Boy. "Ef he ketched us even like this thered be trouble, so we just as waal go on in." · Trains recurring · Repetition “Nobody but the good Lawd could hep now. They wuz