'Ignorance in Black Boy by Richard Wright'

'Ignorance is a insufficiency of copeledge or information. The term ignorance is cheer elbow room what you do non know will not hurt you. In the memoir down in the m out(a)h Boy by Richard Wright, Wright describes how his ignorance held him back in life. Wrights experiences negate the statement Ignorance is bliss. Ignorance is not bliss because the insufficiency of knowledge causes citizenry to eavesdrop, act improperly, and invite false assumptions.\nRichard is naively ignorant which means he is truly(prenominal) open to learning. An illustration of this is genius Saturday dayspring when Richard was nine geezerhood old, a girl in his neighborhood said They gonna dumbfound a lotta property in there today (Wright 62). Richard had already stuck his nose into any bit of presumable business in the neighborhood (Wright 63), and was very poignant to identify that several(prenominal)thing was going on without his knowledge. It is human spirit for people to hear a nswers close to the unknown. Richards ignorance causes him to surreptitiously go around and rise and find answers about what was going on next door. This leads to him get caught watching the landlords sex show. Ignorance is not bliss for Richard because it causes his family that was already in pecuniary trouble, to get kicked out of their house for his eavesdropping. On top of that Richards aunt defends him and calls the landlord a common misemploy (Wright 64).this could have finish in someone getting mischievously hurt if they had gotten into a fight. Ignorance causes Richard to eavesdrop and creates a new perplex of problems for his family.\nWhen Richard is in one-seventh grade, he starts work for etiolate people to make some extra money. beforehand this moment, Richard had very minuscular interaction with neat people, and whenever he asked his acquire questions about exsanguinous people she both eluded the topic wholly or responded, Youre too youthfulness to un derstand (Wright 24). The white family Richard is working for fated at one another in a v...'