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Native Son. Richard Wright. Vintage, 2000 - Fiction - 454 pages. Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny: by chance, it was for murder and rape. [This book] tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief ...
Native Son: Book 1 Summary & Analysis. The alarm clock rings, and an African-American family of four, living on the South Side (in the “Black Belt”) of Chicago gets up. The family lives in a single room in a tenement building, and consists of a mother and three children: Bigger, the oldest; Vera, the middle child; and Buddy, the youngest.
Native Son is a meditation on racial relations in 1930s Chicago, told from the perspective of Bigger Thomas, a young African-American man who, enraged at society, accidentally kills Mary Dalton, whose body he later burns in a furnace; and Bessie, his “girl.”. The novel’s author, Richard Wright, drawing in part on his own experiences as an ...
Native Son is a meditation on racial relations in 1930s Chicago, told from the perspective of Bigger Thomas, a young African-American man who, enraged at society, accidentally kills Mary Dalton, whose body he later burns in a furnace; and Bessie, his “girl.”. The novel’s author, Richard Wright, drawing in part on his own experiences as an ...
Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an American author of novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerns racial themes, especially related to the plight of African Americans during the late 19th to mid 20th centuries suffering discrimination and violence.
Bigger Thomas. The protagonist of Native Son. A poor, uneducated Black man, Bigger comes from the lowest rung on the American social and economic ladder. As his lack of education has left him no option other than menial labor, he has felt trapped his whole life, resenting, hating, and fearing the whites who define the narrow confines of his ...
Nov 18, 2022 · Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright’s powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means ...
