‘Bright and Morning Star’ Richard Wright Essay

The aim of this es separate is to discuss the decision that the protagonist from Richard Wrights graphic and Morning star, Aunt work, a black fret of cardinal word of honors, has to make in order to chose between her countersigns life history and the sanctuary of the Communist members from her participation. This story is, among others written by Richard Wright, a dark portrayal of black Communist life and it analyses the inner struggle of Aunt Sue as a black woman and mother of Communists (1). Wrights unretentive story follows the dilemma that Sue has to confront with herself during one rainy night, as a mother of Communist sons who were chased by the authorities. Her dilemma starts to baffle from the tooth root of the story, when she begins out that her sons communist party was in danger to be discovered by the authorities The sheriff wuz by our stomach tonight He done got word from any(prenominal)wheres bout tha meetin tomorrow(Wright 412).From that moment she was subjected to twain different emotions, the fear that she might lose her son and the duty to the lodge to save the members of the party that her son had She was olfactory property that Johnny-Boy was already lost to her she was feeling the pain that would come when she knew it for certain, and she was feeling that she would have to be brave and plunk for it, for her to try to stop Johnny-Boy was to admit that all the toil of years meant nothing and to let him go meant that sometime or other he would be caught. In facing it this way she felt a little stunned, as though she had come suddenly upon a blank wall in the dark.(Wright 412-413) In spite of Wrights joining to Communism I time-tested to be a Communist, and of his numerous writings about it, finally his focus grew more on the development of an individual black intelligence than on advancing the causes of the Communist party as in the mooring of his two stories Fire and Cloud and Bright and Morning star(2).From the beg inning of the story we can watch Sue divided in two inner parts a part of her still remembering her olden beliefs, in Christianity and Jesus, and a new part of her revealed from the moment of her joining her sons beliefs in Communism in order to escape of the past sufferings of the black people. In her search for better, as we can see trough the story, she try to find a refuge first in religion, then in Communism, precisely when she feels that neither the Communism is enough to achieve a better living, her uttermost hope is in her pride of the black people She was consumed with a acerb pride. There was nothing on this earth, she felt then, that they could not do to her but that she could take (Wright 422) as well we can see Sue taking two different attitudes along the story. If in the first instance we can see Sue as a fixing mother concerned for her family and her cut for her son, Johnny-Boy But how she could forget Johnny-Boy out there on those wet field rounding up s inlessness and black Communists for a meeting tomorrow? (Wright 408), as well we can see that her doubts about her sons melodic phrase among the Communist congregation of her community made her look in a sort skeptical at the policy of allowing people enter the group and at the new white members she didnt trust It wuznt nona our folks . . . Ah knows em all from way back.There ain none of em that coulda . . . Son, it wuz some of them white folks (Wright 417), and she is first portrayed as a regular woman who knows her place in the house While shoving the iron a cluster of toiling days returned days of washing and ironing to use up Johnny-Boy and Sug days of carrying a hundred punds of white folks clothes upon her taper (Wright 409). Her image along with her beliefs changed as the events from that night continued. Her black pride and her commitment to the group emerged when she was brutally questioned about her son and the members from Johnny-Boys Communist group, deliver the g oods to resist to their attack on her yuh didnt git whut yuh wanted N yuh ain gonna nevah git it(Wright 423). Though, further in the night, because of weak position she was establish into by the beatings of the sheriff and because of the false news that her son was killed, her self-confident fell and she was tricked to say the names of the members.The moment she decides to rectify her mistake is the moment she realizes that she has to fight wholly for her cause and to rescue the other members and she would do anything for her sons except betray others (Felgar 29). Also the moment she lost her last faith her pride- revealing the names of the members is also the moment she decides to put the good of her people, her friends, above her son and her fears. Thus the all way to take it back was by shooting the boy booking agent before he could tell the names The tabloid Thas it, the sheet Her intact being leaped with will the long years of her life bent toward a moment of focus a poi nt. Ah kin go wid mah sheet Ahll be doin what he said Lawd Gawd in Heaven, Ahma go same(p) a jigaboo woman wid mah windin sheet and git mah dead son(Wright 433). And although she is subjected to the great martyrdom a mother could endure her son being tortured and killed in front of her, she maintain her strength to accomplish her mission She fired, once then, without pausing, she turned, audition them yell.She aimed at Johnny-Boy, but they had their arms around her She glimpsed Booker lying sprawled in the mud, on his face And she was suddenly at peace they were not a white mountain now they were not pushing her any chronic to the edge of life. Its awright(Wright 440 ) Main features of the protagonist are coming out in this part of the story cleverness, the strength of sacrificing her maternal love and her son for the community cause.She becomes thus the strong, self-confident woman, in order to fix her mistakes and takes the faith of her and her sons life in her hands an d she goes to confront the antagonist by herself. Because of the wisdom of the past generations she possessed, she succeeds to accomplish her well developed plan she goes to the enemy camp by herself with a gun hidden in a white sheet in order to shoot the traitor of her friends The sheet Thas it, the sheet Her whole being leaped with will the long years of her life bent toward a moment of focus a point. Ah kin go wid mah sheet Ahll be doin what he said Lawd Gawd in Heaven, Ahma go like a nigger woman wid mah windin sheet and git mah dead son(Wright 433).In conclusion, the struggle the protagonist has to take before she could see what her options are and her decision to give her life and her sons in promote of the Black community, captures a cruel reality, the author wanted to represent, of black women in particular, and the black community in general, in their effort to escape from the hardships the white men had submitted them to. In this way we can say that Sue succeeded to go her condition as a black mother and woman, and became a defender of a community, but with a price stepping over the love of a mother for her son and sacrificing him for the sake of the rest.Works cited* Richard Wright, Early Works. NY Library of America, 1991, Bright and Morning Star * Felgar, Robert. Student Companions to Classic Writers Student Companions to Richard Wright. Westport Greenwood Press, Inc., 2000. * Kilinski, April Conley, Flinging a mod Star Fire and Cloud and Bright and Morning Star as Reflections of Richard Wrights ChangingRelationship with Communism. Epiphany Vol. 5, No. 1, 2012. <http//www.ius.edu.ba8080/iusjournals/index.php?journal=epiphany& rogue=article&op=viewFile& trail%5B%5D=60&path%5B%5D=52>