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In people’s lives, there are often periods of difficult times that they sometimes have to face, certain

barriers that they have to overcome in order to move further on life’s path. Sometimes they defeat

them: sometimes they are left defeated. During these trials, people often become shaped in a certain

way and these times usually form the future people that they are to become. Like all people,

Richard Wright, too goes through difficult times, which he describes in his autobiography Black

Boy. He tells of the barriers that he faces in life and gradually, through time, overcomes.

One of the obstacles that Richard has to go through is being illiterate. Since he has been unable to

go to any kind of school, Richard does not know how to count or read. By coincidence a coal

deliverer teaches him to count, so “when [his] mother [returns] from her job that night [he insists]

that she stand still and listen while [he counts] to one hundred”(30) ; �...