The Red Hat Comparison

The Black Boy by Richard Wright has the Mom of the boy teaching, her son to stand up for himself. Also in The Red Hat by Rachel Hadas, the parents want to teach their son to be brave. Both of the passages are very similar but still very different. As how they are similar by the parents wanting to teach them a lesson but it is different in how they teach the lesson to them.

These two can be very similar in the lesson the parents want to teach. They want to teach their kids to be independent and not needing to have them to be helped. For example in the Black Boy the mother says “I’m going to teach you this night to stand up for yourself,”(2). This is showing how the mother wants to teach him how to stand up for himself. She is teaching him how to be independent and to be grown up. She doesn't want him to run away from his fears, nor does she want him to always be helped by him. Also like that in The Red Hat by Rachel Hadas, the parents say “Now our son officially walks to school alone,”(2). This shows how they taught him to go to school on his own. They want

The first parent supplies the materials and wants the kid to learn on his own. While the other one slowly makes it up to then independent point for the kid. For example in the Black Boy the kid thinks “My mother was telling me to fight, a thing that she had never done before,”(2). This is showing her style of teaching. She supplies him with the materials and wants him to learn on his own. Meanwhile in the story The Red Hat the parents say “Semi-Alone, it’s accurate to say; I or his father track him on the way”(4). This shows how they take “baby-steps” with him. They want to gradually make him independent. Unlike the other Mom who just gives him the materials and lets him use them. These are 2 completely different teaching methods, but both show how it makes the outcome the same. One may be quicker than the other, but they still get the same