Ignorance in Black Boy by Richard Wright

Ignorance is a lack of sockledge or information. The term ignorance is bliss performer what you do not know will not injustice you. In the memoir unappeasable Boy by Richard Wright, Wright describes how his ignorance held him bet on in life. Wrights experiences confound the statement Ignorance is bliss. Ignorance is not bliss because the lack of knowledge causes mickle to eavesdrop, act improperly, and make false assumptions.\nRichard is naively ignorant which gist he is very disperse to learning. An example of this is one Saturday daybreak when Richard was nine years old, a girl in his area said They gonna make a lotta money in thither today (Wright 62). Richard had already stuck his wander into every bit of credible business in the neighbourhood (Wright 63), and was very poignant to listen that something was discharge on without his knowledge. It is adult male nature for multitude to hear answers about the unknown. Richards ignorance causes him to surreptitiou sly go around and listen and find answers about what was going on next door. This leads to him propo fateing caught watching the landlords awake show. Ignorance is not bliss for Richard because it causes his family that was already in financial trouble, to get kicked out of their house for his eavesdropping. On top of that Richards aunt defends him and calls the landlord a common lady of pleasure (Wright 64).this could have ended in someone getting bad hurt if they had gotten into a fight. Ignorance causes Richard to eavesdrop and creates a new set of problems for his family.\nWhen Richard is in seventh grade, he starts working for whitened people to make some unembellished money. Before this moment, Richard had very puny interaction with white people, and whenever he asked his mother questions about white people she either eluded the stem completely or responded, Youre too young to translate (Wright 24). The white family Richard is working for curst at one other in a v ...