In “The library Card”, Richard Wright discusses how his passion for reading lead him to see the world in a whole new way. One day after arriving to work Wright picked up the newspaper and began reading. After that day Wright became curious and was eager to read more. Because he was a black boy, he was not allowed to read from the library. Wright decided to ask an Irish Catholic from his job for books , the Irish man agreed to let him borrow his library card but to not speak of this to no one. After that day Wright would check out book from the library frequently. He began to question the text, how and why the writers would write the way they did and who they would talk about. He was so passionate about reading and could not get enough. Wright eventually began seeing life in a new way, He became unhappy with his life, he felt hostile and hatred. He finally came to the decision to go to the North. He began planning what he would do in order not to feel so hostile, he would wonder if things would completely change for him.
         I enjoyed reading “The Library Card” because Wright spoke of how reading changed his perspective of life. Wright wrote how reading made him see things in a whole new way. Most of the articles I have read so far mentioned how reading changed their life for the better and how they were happy with the results. In Wrights case I liked how reading lead him to question his own life and how he tried to make it better by moving to the North. It made him see that life isn’t always what one thinks and might expect, but is trying to improve it. All the reading and questioning made him feel hostile, but it also made him see that he wasn’t living a happy life.