Change!!

I believe Wright's change, or his move to the North was a positive one on his life. Wright spends the better half of the first part of the book telling stories and reliving horrible things that had been happening to him. He tells of being beaten by both his family and the whites around him, of awful jobs where he is treated poorly and desires nothing more then to fill the hunger he feels without getting punished for wanting to do so. Wright moving to the North would bring about a change in his life, and at this point it seems the best thing that he can do is to get out and move to somewhere where things would be different, not promised to be better, but different at least. And seeing as his life is so hard to live where he is staying now, a change could only be for the positive.