Bigger Thomas is a character from the novel, "Native Son", by Richard Wright, which deals with a young man dealing with racism through out his life. ... "Black Boy" a novel also written by Richard Wright is another novel which, a young black man has to deal with racism throughout his life. ... Richard being older is associated with a gang of older black boys who share his hostility toward white people. ... This relates to criticism of the black community for allowing themselves to be subservient to whites Richard as a black boy is isolated from the world of the white people, but this iso...

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Native Son is not the first work I have read by Richard Wright. I read Black Boy in high school and was fascinated at how new and alien the books perspective was, and wished that I could get a deeper understanding of the theme. ... "Conflict of Values: Richard Wright's Native Son." ... "Richard Wright and Albert Camus: The Literature of Revolt." ... Comes to the conclusion that Native Son, being one of Richard Wright's early books, is a product of Wright's disgust with his society, and his way of lashing out against it. ...

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Richard Wright's implementation of setting within Bigger's existence plays an instrumentive role in portraying how society shapes one's personality in his novel Native Son. ... And all that Bigger wants to do is "to merge himself with others and be a part of this world, to lose himself in it so he could find himself, to be allowed a chance to live like others, even though he was black" (226) and not have to continue being the black boy who is expected to conform to the accepted black stereotype. ... What has this seemingly petty black man done? ... How could a black person ...

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• Grade Level: High School