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- Native Son - WikipediaNative Son (1940) is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright. It tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black youth living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s. Thomas accidentally kills a white woman at a time when racism is at its peak and he pays the price for it.
- Native Son | African-American, 1940s Chicago, Social CritiqueNative Son, novel by Richard Wright, published in 1940. The novel addresses the issue of white American society’s responsibility for the repression of blacks. The plot charts the decline of Bigger Thomas, a young African American imprisoned for two murders—the accidental smothering of his white.
- Richard Wright - Books, Native Son & Facts - BiographyFamous Authors & Writers. Abolitionists. Richard Wright. Pioneering African American writer Richard Wright is best known for the classic texts 'Black Boy' and 'Native Son.' Updated: Mar 26,...
- Native Son: Full Book Summary | SparkNotesNative Son Full Book Summary. Previous Next. Bigger Thomas, a poor, uneducated, twenty-year-old Black man in 1930s Chicago, wakes up one morning in his family’s cramped apartment on the South Side of the city. He sees a huge rat scamper across the room, which he corners and kills with a skillet.
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