Read the excerpt from Black Boy. Finally I heard my mother's name called; she rose and began weeping so copiously that she could not talk for a few moments; at last she managed to say that her husband had deserted her and her two children, that her children were hungry, that they stayed hungry, that she worked, that she was trying to raise them alone. Then my father was called; he came forward jauntily, smiling. He tried to kiss my mother, but she turned away from him. I only heard one sentence of what he said. "I'm doing all I can, Your Honor," he mumbled, grinning. It had been painful to sit and watch my mother crying and my father laughing and I was glad when we were outside in the sunny streets. Wright uses this personal experience to establish

Taken from the memoir "Black Boy" by Richard Wright (1945), Wright uses this personal experience to clarify Wright's father's personality, attitude, and values. During that period, men were considered more trustworthy than women. In this excerpt, Wright's mother was called by the judge and she explained her situation to him (that her husband had deserted her and her two children, that her children were hungry, that they stayed hungry, that she worked, that she was trying to raise them alone). Then, the same judge called Wright's father to verify that situation and the judge believed him instead of Wright's mother when he said, "I'm doing all I can, Your Honor,". In fact, in the following lines Wright narrates that Ella, Wright's mother, gets sad because of the judge's choice: "Back at home my mother wept again and talked complainingly about the unfairness of the judge who had accepted my father's word.". This explains the attitudes of Wright's father and the comparison between the trustworthiness of women and men in the narration of this personal experience of Richard Wright.