The Wright Changes?

It seems that the changes that Wright is making towards the end of his stay in Memphis are most definitely for the better. He seems to be finding his place in his world; some could say that he doesn't want his place to be the place that other blacks (such as his father and Shorty) have taken. His goal is to become a writer, which is something he knows not a lot of others are trying to do. He also knows that the only way to achieve his goal is to move to the North; the extremity of oppression in the South would not allow him to come anywhere close to becoming a professional writer. He also wants to quench his thirst for knowledge and his hunger for understanding of the world; in the South, his physical hunger often kept him from being able to do certain things, such as work at the postal office, and his lack of sufficient education hindered not only his writing, but some of his understanding of the business world. I hope that he is able to do much better in the North; judging by the fact that this is actually a book he wrote, I can assume he did much better.