TAG: Native Son
description
Transcript of TAG: Native Son
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
TAG
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
Your Responsibility
Your Novel Reading Log Reading Journal Mini-Projects and Mini-Quizzes Test Major Project