Native Son: With plot summary, notes and study questions and essay
Wright, Richard
Native Son: With plot summary, notes and study questions and essay - Seagroove Publications Ltd 2013 - 460
Native Son introduces a figure familiar to mid twentieth-century America, the lone man backed into a corner by discrimination and misunderstanding. Frustrated by racism and the limited opportunities afforded black men in society, Bigger strikes out in a futile attempt to transgress the boundaries and limits of his position. He murders Mary Dalton, the only child of a wealthy real estate magnate, by accident. Yet the act of murder gives his life meaning, and the consequent trial and execution are incidental...
978-978-51838-8-7
Black Americans
Fiction
Mid - Twentieth Century
Racism
Native Son: With plot summary, notes and study questions and essay - Seagroove Publications Ltd 2013 - 460
Native Son introduces a figure familiar to mid twentieth-century America, the lone man backed into a corner by discrimination and misunderstanding. Frustrated by racism and the limited opportunities afforded black men in society, Bigger strikes out in a futile attempt to transgress the boundaries and limits of his position. He murders Mary Dalton, the only child of a wealthy real estate magnate, by accident. Yet the act of murder gives his life meaning, and the consequent trial and execution are incidental...
978-978-51838-8-7
Black Americans
Fiction
Mid - Twentieth Century
Racism