5 American dream. American dream contains many elements; one of them is the
spirit of individualism. God will never change our life if we do not change it. It means that we
are the decision maker in our successful. Unfortunately, sometimes we find some problems in our career, when we cannot solve those, we will fail our career. Good
individualism will make us easy to solve our problems. Those people who will get their success.
It also happened to Richard Wright. He had various experiences before becoming a writer. Every difficulty in his life did not make him feel hopeless and
give up in pursuing his dream. On the contrary, he had huge motivation to pursuit his dream that was becoming a writer because he believed that he would be better
off after he had had many failures in his life.
1.2 Reasons for Choosing the Topic
Spirit of individualism is one of many elements of American dream. I chose Black Boy as the object of the study because it will give more motivation to people in
reaching their own success because spirit of individualism is a way out used by Richard to reach his goals. To be successful, people do not have to depend on
others and have to work hard to be successful in their life. People become the decision makers to themselves.
Furthermore, it is the masterpiece by Richard Wright who attempts
experience what it is like to be poor and living day by day as a black Americans, it tells
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about Richard’s
life from his childhood until he became a famous writer.
He must be working hard to pursuit his dream.
It teaches us that life is not simple. Sometimes, many failures happen in our life. For that reason, we should struggle
to get everything that we want in our life, especially to achieve our dreams. There are many examples of spirit of individualism revealed in this book.
In line with the explanation, I am interested in taking Spirit of Individualism as Reflected in Richard Wright‘s Black Boy as the topic of my final
project. It is also hoped that it can give a motivation and real contribution to the social life.
1.3 Statement of the Problem
In order to focus on the study, I limited the discussion of this final project by presenting the following problems:
1. How is spirit of individualism reflected in the intrinsic elements of
Richard Wright‘s Black Boy?
2. What are the characteristics of spirit of individualism revealed in Richard
Wright‘s Black Boy?
1.4 Objective of the Study
Based on the problems that are discussed in this final project, the objectives of this study are:
1. To know how spirit of individualism is reflected in the intrinsic elements
of Richard Wright‘s Black Boy.
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To discuss the characteristics of spirit of individualism are revealed in Richard Wright‘s Black Boy.
1.5 Significance of the Study
