"The Library Card"-Wright Agueda Gomez

     The short story, "The Library Card", by Richard Wright was a very sad reading because it shows an African American man struggling in the slavery periods in America. He has this great desire to read and write but feels oppressed by the white men and their restrictions to "Negro's". However, as a persevering man he asks a white catholic guy from work if he could borrow his library card so he could check out books. The white man grants him permission to do so. For him to be able to check out books, he had to forge little notes to the librarian pretending to be the white catholic man.
     Throughout literature, this young man silently begins to become more educated and begins to thirst reading even more. The reason I say that he is silently becoming more educated is because he has to hide that he's reading to everyone. He has to pretend like he's stupid and he's just reading "to kill time". He also begins to want to learn how to write. But he says that how could he write if he barely new the English language. It's truly sad how he wants to get out of the mold society has placed him in, but can't because he doesn't have the resources or know the people to do so.
     This reading was pretty sad to me because it makes you realize how we have all these opportunities and free things to succeed in life and we choose not too when their are others out there that want to but can't because they don't have the same opportunities like we do. This story reminds me alot of the people who are trying to succeed in school but can't because they can't afford it because they're illegal aliens or because X factors. Nevertheless, everything is doable if you truly procrastinate. For example, I can't afford the school books but I go to the library everyday and catch up on my readings. I save up money for when I have enough to buy a book. Everything is doable if you put your everything into it.