Explains that the initial reaction to the book Native Son is rejection on the grounds that it is unrealistic, and that Bigger Thomas is a flat character incapable of being a symbol to the black people. ... The white people and Communists in the book are also flat stereotypes, and have no capacity to understand blacks as human beings with a complex social structure. ... Not for Bigger, who he still hated as a character, but for Richard Wright for the hopelessness he must have felt to write this book. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Situation of African-Americans in America In their motherland Africa, black people lived together in tribes with the families staying together in the village and leading a live according to strong morals and rites. Each tribe had developed a culture and often an own language, and the people ei...

• Word Count: 3965
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• Grade Level: High School