The Right to the Streets of Memphis

“The Right to the Streets of Memphis” was written by Richard Wright, who was an African- American writer.

The story can be divided in to part. The first part is about a family that is hunger it only father is one who can provide food to the family but he is never home it can maybe is the farther away, he left them or he is taking as a slave because the where legally to have slaves in 1800’s. And second part, can we hear that their mother gets a kind of job and gives the eldest son to be the head of family, the kids ask the mother where their father is and she repeat ever time that they “…were too young to know”. We hear about how he gets money from his mother to buy groceries, but every time he goes, gets he attacked by a boys and they steal his money, which he received from his mother to buy the groceries. His mother tells him to fight them if the bother him again and gives him a stick to protect himself.

The mother sent her son to buy groceries at corner shop and on his way he is attack by group of boys. He gets beaten and the took his money. He go home and tell his mother about the attack. Instead of asking him have he is and talk some sense into the boys, she gives him a stick and she say to him that he shall beat the boys if the bother him. He go to the corner shop and the group of boys attacked him again, but this time he is ready to beat and send them crying home. Their parents come running into the street and the threatened him, and for first time he shouted at them.