Schools and Morals

Richard Wright is taught morality through his experiences on the street, opposed to learning from a religious school as the text taught. He learned through the countless beatings he received what was right and wrong. For instance, he learned that you should not burn down a house for entertainment. That was an important lesson that he learned. As he progressed, he learned from important events like writing with soap on people’s windows and fending off the street gangs with the groceries. Because he grew up on the street and received his moral education in the south, it was much different from the process in the article. Incidentally, his religious education did not teach him morals at all. When he was taught by his aunt, she mistreated him and made him an outcast in the school. All of the children shunned him because they believed that he was not a child of god. He had not accepted the word of the church to heart, so they outcast him.