The Wright Choice?

Richard Wright made the correct decision at the end of Part 1 to move without question when you look at the abundance or lack-thereof of opportunity up North compared to his current location. Richard's talents in communication and his aspirations to become a writer fall upon deaf ears everywhere around him in the Jim Crow south, and even if he had received support from his family, in such a racially segregated area, there was really no hope for Richard's success. Richard really needed a fresh start, and the only way for this to come about was for him to move North again. Had he not, he very well could have become like his father and his friends: complacent with their below average lives and both unwilling and unable to work their way up to a higher class level. By moving, Richard once and for all removed himself from those shadows and became his own man.