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    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.

  2. Native Son, a novel by American author Richard Wright, was published in 1940. It is a searing exploration of systemic racism and its impact on Bigger Thomas, a young Black man in 1930s Chicago. Trapped in poverty, Bigger’s life takes a tragic turn when he accidentally kills a wealthy white woman.

  3. A short summary of Richard Wright's Native Son. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of Native Son.

  4. Richard Wright's Native Son is the story of a crime, though not so much the story of the crimes of the book's protagonist, Bigger Thomas, the directionless, impoverished amoral black youth eking out an existence in a cold and dark Chicago in the late 1930s.

  5. Native Son, novel by Richard Wright, published in 1940. The novel addresses the issue of white American society’s responsibility for the repression of blacks. The plot charts the decline of Bigger Thomas, a young African American imprisoned for two murders—the accidental smothering of his white.

  6. Native Son in a nutshell: A quick overview of the essential plot points, characters, and ideas. ‘Native Son’ is a tragic fiction and social protest novel written capturing the racial prejudice among the white and black population of the American society.

  7. Mar 8, 2012 · Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's novel is just as powerful today as when it was written -- in its reflection of poverty and hopelessness, and what it means to be black in America