TO all "Black Boy" readers?

Question

I have recently read Black Boy out of free choice for an English porject. However, the book I have recieved only contained PART I, and I believed that was the whole book itself. However, I just figured out "Black Boy" has a PART II, a part which was never in my copy of the book. Has this ever happened to anybody else? Is there a good explanation on this phenomena? Maybe PART II was published afterwards? Anyone have any ideas, or perhaps there is no PART II. Sparknotes says PART II is on Richard's time with the Communist PArt. Is that in the original version of the book?

Answer 1

I've never actually seen the second part of this, although I have read the book and enjoyed it a great deal, the story of his growing up in the South with his whacked-out grandmother and his urge to write and achieve. His book "Native Son" does the same thing. The final 1/3 of the book is all a lawyer's argument at trial and it is a defense of why communism is so terrific and the system that existed for African-Americans was so awful.

Richard Wright, like WEB DuBois left the USA to live abroad and never returned.

Answer 2

I don't know. Im sorry!