![]() It tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black youth living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicagos South Side in the 1930s. Native Son has sold close to three million copies. Native Son (1940) is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright. An undisputed classic since it was first published in 1945. Richard Wrights Native Son tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black American youth living in utter poverty in Chicagos South Side during the. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright's powerful novel is just as meaningful today as when it was written, both in its unsparing reflection of the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and in what it means to be black in America. ![]() He felt a sense of freedom and identity in his acts of violence that neither his woman, Bessie, with her whiskey, nor his mother, with her religion, had been able to give him. He killed his first young victim in an unpremeditated moment of panic-and found himself caught up by forces outside his control and understanding. He was a "nigger" in a white man's world, and his crimes upset the whole of Chicago. Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) is one of the most violent and revolutionary works in the American canon. It could have been for assault or petty larceny by chance, it was for murder and rape. ![]() ![]() Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. ![]()
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