TAG: NATIVE SONK. Melvin

“Men can starve from a lack of self-

realization as much as they can from

a lack of bread.”

― Richard Wright, Native Son

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T: Native SonA: Richard WrightG: Novel

About the Author

Richard Wright was born September 4, 1908 in Roxie, Mississippi (near Natchez).

He was a novelist, short-story author Wright, Richard (4 Sept. 1908-28 Nov.

1960), author, was born Richard Nathaniel Wright on Rucker's Plantation, between Roxie and Natchez, Mississippi, the son of Nathaniel Wright, an illiterate sharecropper, and Ella Wilson, a schoolteacher.

Famous Works

(1940) Native Son Black Boy (1945)

Background Info.

In Native Son, Wright presents his guilt-of-the-nation thesis.

His main character, Bigger Thomas, is a nineteen-year-old edgy small-time criminal from Chicago's South Side ghetto.

The novel races with no stops in between the three parts: Book I, Fear; Book II, Flight; and Book III, Fate

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