What is the picture that the author paints of his childhood in the opening paragraph of the text The black boy?
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Black Boy (1945) is a memoir by American author Richard Wright, detailing his upbringing. Wright describes his youth in the South: Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee, and his eventual move to Chicago, where he establishes his writing career and becomes involved with the Communist Party. Black Boy gained high acclaim in the United States because of Wright’s honest and profound depiction of racism in America. While the book gained significant recognition, much of the reception throughout and after the publication process was highly controversial.
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Black Boy begins as the four-year-old Richard Wright accidentally sets fire to his grandparents' house in Natchez, Mississippi. When his mother finds out, she whips Wright so severely he almost dies. Years later Wright and his family move to Memphis, Tennessee. ... His mother says she cannot feed him until she finds work.