Native Son - Richard Wright #1 Post-Reading After Bigger Thomas, the central character of this novel, has "murdered a white girl and cut her head off and burnt her body,"" he thinks that he has "created a new life for himself. ... His protagonist, Bigger Thomas, has a background which resembles Wright's. ... The Thomas' must live in their rat-infested apartment partly because no one will rent to blacks in any other section of town. ... Bigger Thomas is angry. ... These patterns include beasts, the rat, Bigger hunted as an animal, blacks shown as wild animals and Bigger po...

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• Grade Level: High School