LITERATURE QUESTIONS
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
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He had known many “Biggers” in his life.
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He was trying to overcome his fears of powerful men.
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He was proud of all the African American men he had seen stand up to Whites.
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He wanted to show African American males how not to live.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Bigger Thomas, principal character in Richard Wright’s novel Native Son (1940), a 20-year-old African American living in a rat-infested Chicago slum who accidentally kills his white employer’s daughter and then kills his girlfriend to prevent her from telling the police.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -A poor, uneducated black man, Bigger comes from the lowest rung on the American social and economic ladder. As his lack of education has left him no option other than menial labor, he has felt trapped his whole life, resenting, hating, and fearing the whites who define the narrow confines of his existence.