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Book report Richard Wright’s Native Son
Who Was He? What Qualifies him?
Richard Nathaniel Wright was an African-American author of controversial books, short stories, some of which are very popular. Quite a bit of his writing concerns racial topics, particularly identified with the predicament of African Americans amid the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth hundreds of years, who endured separation and savagery in the South, and the North. Wright finished grade school and junior high but, did not attend college. He moved to Chicago where he began to attend meetings of the John Reed Club. There he had established a relationship with other members of the group. A couple of years following, he completed …show more content…
Richard Wright uses these to illustrate and illuminate some of the problems within the racist society in which the main character Bigger is growing up. An example of this would be the rat seen at the beginning of the book. The rat represents many things in the book; one thing it is symbolic of, is Bigger himself. They use the rat to represent how Bigger is seen to the whites in his area. The rat represents how timid Bigger is and how he has no real control of his life or the things around him. He is trapped or waiting to be trapped by those who look down upon him. Wright also writes in dialogue throughout the book. This writing style is written from first person’s point of view to help us to better understand the …show more content…
The press and the general population decide his conviction before his trial even starts. The people accept that he assaulted Mary before murdering her and hid her body to conceal the confirmation of the assault. The white experts and the white population used Bigger's crime as a reason to threaten the whole South Side. Max, Bigger’s lawyer, tries to spare Bigger from capital punishment, contending that while Bigger is wrong, that there is more to the story than what is being heard or seen. He also tries to blame it on a pre-existing condition of Bigger’s. Some portion of the fault for Bigger's wrongdoings has a place with the dreadful, sad presence that he has encountered in a supremacist society since birth. Max cautions that there will be more men like Bigger if America does not put a conclusion to the endless loop of scorn and retribution. In spite of Max's contentions, Bigger is condemned to
Book report Richard Wright’s Native Son
Who Was He? What Qualifies him?
Richard Nathaniel Wright was an African-American author of controversial books, short stories, some of which are very popular. Quite a bit of his writing concerns racial topics, particularly identified with the predicament of African Americans amid the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth hundreds of years, who endured separation and savagery in the South, and the North. Wright finished grade school and junior high but, did not attend college. He moved to Chicago where he began to attend meetings of the John Reed Club. There he had established a relationship with other members of the group. A couple of years following, he completed …show more content…
Richard Wright uses these to illustrate and illuminate some of the problems within the racist society in which the main character Bigger is growing up. An example of this would be the rat seen at the beginning of the book. The rat represents many things in the book; one thing it is symbolic of, is Bigger himself. They use the rat to represent how Bigger is seen to the whites in his area. The rat represents how timid Bigger is and how he has no real control of his life or the things around him. He is trapped or waiting to be trapped by those who look down upon him. Wright also writes in dialogue throughout the book. This writing style is written from first person’s point of view to help us to better understand the …show more content…
The press and the general population decide his conviction before his trial even starts. The people accept that he assaulted Mary before murdering her and hid her body to conceal the confirmation of the assault. The white experts and the white population used Bigger's crime as a reason to threaten the whole South Side. Max, Bigger’s lawyer, tries to spare Bigger from capital punishment, contending that while Bigger is wrong, that there is more to the story than what is being heard or seen. He also tries to blame it on a pre-existing condition of Bigger’s. Some portion of the fault for Bigger's wrongdoings has a place with the dreadful, sad presence that he has encountered in a supremacist society since birth. Max cautions that there will be more men like Bigger if America does not put a conclusion to the endless loop of scorn and retribution. In spite of Max's contentions, Bigger is condemned to