ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Native Son (1940) is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright. It tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black youth living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago’s South Side in the 1930s. While not apologizing for Bigger’s crimes, Wright portrays a systemic causation behind them.

Detailed explanation-2: -Native Son (1940) is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright. It tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black youth living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago’s South Side in the 1930s. While not apologizing for Bigger’s crimes, Wright portrays a systemic causation behind them.

Detailed explanation-3: -Native Son thus represents Wright’s urgent warning that if American social and economic realities did not change, the oppressed masses would soon rise up in fury against those in power. Disenchanted over the Communist Party’s attempts to control the content of his writing, Wright quietly split with the Party in 1942.

Detailed explanation-4: -By May 6, 1938, excellent sales had provided Wright with enough money to move to Harlem, where he began writing the novel Native Son, which was published in 1940.

Detailed explanation-5: -Richard Wright’s novel, Native Son, tells of the wretched character, Bigger Thomas. The author uses the third person limited point of view narration focusing on Bigger to tell the story.