Rite of passage

Description:

When fifteen-year-old Johnny Gibbs is told that he is really a foster child, he runs off into the streets of Harlem and meets up with a gang that wants him to participate in a mugging. Includes criticism of Wright's fiction.

subjects: Fiction,  Gangs,  Runaways,  African Americans,  African American teenage boys,  Criticism and interpretation,  Children's fiction,  Runaways, fiction,  Gangs, fiction,  Harlem (new york, n.y.), fiction,  African americans, fiction

Places: Harlem (New York, N.Y.)