Whereas, Wright was more advanced and willing to escape the divergent life chosen by his parents, his father was more set in his ways, “I was overwhelmed to realize that he could never understand me or the scalding experiences that had swept me beyond his life.” Post-World War II, there was a societal phenomenon that commonly existed in American households, children felt as if they had to live up to their parents standards, but Wright broke the mold. Wright and his father “were forever strangers, speaking different language, living on vastly distant planes of reality.” With the use of emotional appeals, Wright illustrates the rejection he felt as a young child, “[He] who had at last fled the city—that same city which had lifted me.” Both Wright and his father were connected to the city, but in different effects, Wrights outcome was “[the] undreamed-of shores of knowing” whereas his father’s was “a black peasant who gone to the city seeking life, but who had failed in the
Whereas, Wright was more advanced and willing to escape the divergent life chosen by his parents, his father was more set in his ways, “I was overwhelmed to realize that he could never understand me or the scalding experiences that had swept me beyond his life.” Post-World War II, there was a societal phenomenon that commonly existed in American households, children felt as if they had to live up to their parents standards, but Wright broke the mold. Wright and his father “were forever strangers, speaking different language, living on vastly distant planes of reality.” With the use of emotional appeals, Wright illustrates the rejection he felt as a young child, “[He] who had at last fled the city—that same city which had lifted me.” Both Wright and his father were connected to the city, but in different effects, Wrights outcome was “[the] undreamed-of shores of knowing” whereas his father’s was “a black peasant who gone to the city seeking life, but who had failed in the