Go North Young Man

• Blog – Is the change Wright sets in motion at the end of Part 1 (his action to move) a positive or negative change?

The change that Wright sets in motion is very defiantly a positive change because he has worked long and hard to get out of the south and by doing so he is giving the finger to all the whites that held him down. Whites who had previously tried to get him killed for sport are telling him to not go north because he wont like it there, often for lame reasons, “it’s cold”, “you’ll fall in the lake”. By going north he is telling whites that he is human and not a dumb subservient animal. By doing this Wright is also saying that the current status quo does not work, something, which the whites do not want to hear because they are on top in the current status quo. As a black living in the south the north seems like the Promised Land and therefore his decision to go north is clearly a positive action.