Category: Native Son

Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed…It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality. (Wright, PAGE 45). Native Son (1939) 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…

The novel Native Son by Richard is set in Chicago during the 1930s. It follows the story of Bigger Thomas who is a 20-year-old African American. He lives in poverty with his family in the beggarly south side. Bigger needs to get a job to help support his family but he is self-centered. Bigger prefers…

Introduction This study is about representation of women in the African American Literature as written in Native son and The Colour purple. African-American literature has undergone a revolutionary change from Phillies Wheatley, the first African-American poet to publish her works, to Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Walter Mosley, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, and Paule Marshall, the…

The creation of Big Boy is only to show how much he hated to live a life like that. A life where the blacks are lynched for small offences and their body parts taken as souvenirs by the whites and kept in their houses or shops only to show that they are the superior people.…

The beginning of Native Son we are introduced to Bigger, the main character in this novel by Richard Wright, he is a 20-year-old who lives with his family in a one-bedroom apartment, in the South Side of Chicago. During the beginning of this book, Bigger needs a job, and sets out to find something but…

The behavior expressed in Richard Wrights Native Son provides us with a basis to realize our own faults in todays society. The rampant prejudice within the novels society led to the mental and emotional shifting within the black community, seen specifically in Bigger Thomas. The racist precedents set in the past determine our actions today,…

This study is about representation of women in the African American Literature as written in Native son and The Colour purple. African-American literature has undergone a revolutionary change from Phillies Wheatley, the first African-American poet to publish her works, to Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Walter Mosley, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, and Paule Marshall, the contemporary…

The scope of the study is concerned about the Representation of Women in the Color Purle and Native Son in the African American Literature. The study is limited to the representation of African American women in Native son and the colour purple. The time that the researcher has to conduct this research is so limited.…