Part one of term paper
Richard Wright's, The Man Who Lived Underground, is a surrealistic story about a man who comes to a new consciousness of his own and the actual condition of society as a result of his retreat underground after being labeled a guilty social being. This great irony takes place after a young black man, Fred Daniels, is coerced into signing a c ...

Part two of term paper
... upside down, his experiences were generally the reversal of what one would expect them to be. This story begins as Fred Daniels is running from the police. He knows that his only options are, "to hide, or he had to surrender", (Wright 19). The sirens of the police cars which wail in the distance mark the audible beginning of Daniels' separation from regular society. He decides to hide when he notices a manhole cover on the ground. "The cover clanged into place, muffling the sights and sounds ...