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As one of the most influential black writers of the twentieth century, Richard Wright paved a road on which he established the tradition of protest novels against whites and white society by employing naturalistic elements in his writing. His protest is especially directed toward whites that constructed social conditions and harsh environment for blacks. His fiction is based on his personal experience and he chooses to foreground the harsh environment and conditions in which blacks live. This environment plays an important role in shaping not only the black characters’ life but also the development of the plot of Wright’s fiction and stories. Instead of making his protagonist a victim as in traditional naturalism, though, Wright portrays the importance of humanity by evoking pathos and revealing the inhumanity of the whites.