Black Boy

I really enjoyed the first two chapters of Black Boy. I thought our in class discussion on tuesday was interesting. I agree that the author wrote this book as if i all happed to someone else he is very emotionless. The book clips along at a good pace and richard does get in alot of trouble. Age four he burns down the house, then he hides under the burning house. Then at his grandmothers he tells her to kiss his butt when she is bathing him. He writes obsenities on the neighbors windows, hangs a cat, runs away, gets evicted for peeping in on the whore house and more all before the age of nine. Richard also has a strange irrtional fear of many things and reacts to them by freezing up and being un able to do anything. This is what i thought of the first two chapters of Black Boy.