Erik+Chester+Day+5

Summarizer
Richard makes it to Chicago and starts working for the Hoffmans, Jewish immigrants, but this does not last long because Richard feels bad about lying to them about looking for other jobs. He then starts working at a cafe. He and another black girl working there turn in the cook for spitting in the food. Richard leaves for a temporary job at the post office, but loses that job and returns to the cafe. He then trys out for the post office job again and gets it for a while, but then the stock market crash causes him to lose it again. If you couldn't guess everyone in the family gets really sick AGAIN... and Richard is forced to work for and insurance company that cheats blacks which makes Richard ponder the relations of blacks and whites some more. Richard finally gives into his needs and gets federal assistance. He begins getting communist ideas and he gets a job at a hospital for the mean time. The job is just another miserable oppressed black job. The ideas have a place to blossom when Richard attends a John Reed Club meeting. He rockets to the top as he accepts the white members of the groups, but is very quickly shot into shadows as Comrade Young shows up. He ends up just being a mental patient that was quacking out loud. Richard wants to illustrate the Communist cause by making a biography of Ross but this leads to him being questioned by Ed Green of his motives. He is ostracized as an intellectual and is left alone but can not get out of the group. Buddy Nelson eventually convinces Wright to start a group about the high cost of living while the federal assistance gives him a job with public relations at a Fedral Negro Theater where he is quickly discriminated against for working with a white director so he once again gets a different job with the Federal Writers' Project. He is even more loathed by his Communist buddies and the tale ends with Wrights decision to make a connection with the world through words. All this while, Richard was reading, creating new ideas and always toying with the relations of whites and blacks.


 * Long Summary Short**... Wright had like six more jobs. Everyone got sick again. He became a communist as his ideas matured. His ideas matured to a point that he was left alone.

Character Analyzer
Hoffmans - Jewish shopkeepers, they are actually nice to him but being brand new to the North Wright assumes they will trick him and be violent like all the Southerners

Comrade Young - exposes the vulnerability of the Communist group. mental patient that shot to top of group

Ross - Richard wants to make a biopraphical series over him to get people on the Communist's side

Ed Green - turns the Communist against Richard since he is an "intellectual" basically