Racial Delinquality In Native Son By Richard Wright

The novel Native Son by Richard Wright tells the story of Bigger Thomas, a young black man living on the South Side of Chicago. Due to the severe oppression and racism he has faced throughout his entire life, the reader is shown how Bigger has no control over his life and is driven to extreme actions as a result of his fear and anger. Wright displays how media and popular culture in the novel serve as powerful driving forces in emphasizing the destructive racial prejudices that are present in society as a way to solidify these ideas in the minds of its members. Through presenting the media in such a light, Wright criticizes how the media inaccurately presents information to the public

Many times in novels, authors will use conflicts to strengthen the plot and to give more depth to the story that they are penning. There are four main plot conflicts that authors have to choose from: man versus nature, man versus society, man versus man, and finally, man versus self. Authors, many times, will use only one or two of these conflicts but in the novel, Native Son, all four conflicts are used to some extent. In this novel, Richard Wright, does a superb job of meticulously blending all four conflicts together to form a well-rounded novel about a black man in 1920 's Chicago.

Native Son is set during the Chicago Renaissance during the 1930’s. Bigger Thompson lives in an impoverished neighborhood, and in a one-bedroom apartment with his mother and two younger siblings. To help supplement his mother’s income Bigger is pressured to take a chauffeur job offered by Mr. Dalton, who is a successful man who is also the landlord of Bigger’s building. On his first night of the job, Bigger is ordered to take Mr. Dalton’s daughter Mary to the local university. However, Mary directs Bigger to pick up her Communist boyfriend Jan. During the night, Mary and Jan drink excessively and beg Bigger to take them to a black neighborhood. When Bigger arrives at the Dalton’s residence Mary is intoxicated to the point where she is inebriated. Thus, causing Bigger to carry her to her bedroom without getting caught. Then, Mary’s blind mother walks in the room to check on her daughter. Frightened, and scared Bigger accidently kills Mary by asphyxiating her with a pillow to keep her quiet. Still

Richard Wright's Native Son provides us with an exemplary example of the way the black race was conditioned in the 1930's. He does this by telling us about an adult black male named Bigger Thomas. Wright titles each book in the novel the way he does to give insight into the various actions and feelings of Bigger.

Native Son by Richard Wright Who is the victim in a prejudiced civilization? The dominant group or the minority? "Native Son," a novel by Richard Wright, focuses on the effects of racism on the oppressors and the oppressed. It establishes that in an ethnically prejudiced society discrimination comes from everywhere, and most monumental occurrences only contribute to its decline. The story is set in Chicago in the 1930s. The

One of the many instinctual desires that humans are born with is the desire to surround themselves with other humans. This innate idea, like eating or drinking, is something that the human body is dependent on. Without interaction and socialization, humans would go insane, stuck within their own thoughts. In Richard Wright’s Native Son, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and Stephen King’s On Writing, this desire for human companionship influences the lives of all protagonists. Without this humanly comfort, no creature would able to survive.

The title is Native Son is significant because it represents the realistic racial relations from the 1940s. Native Son is a symbol of how each race was impacted by racism. Richard Wright mad Bigger Thomas the first character in any African-American work to represent the unheard voices of those blacks who were defecated and forced into neo-slavery. Bigger was the victim and the whites were the criminals. Native Son is important because it tells all of how slavery negatively impacted both whites and blacks when it started and throughout its modernizations. Whites had to deal with many of the same things as blacks, which was getting killed by the enemy or even being raped by the opposite race. White people were just as scared of black people as black people were scared of them. Native Son is one of the first eye openers as to what really happened to our economy as we let slavery progress. Why didn’t we fight until the end from the beginning, we all knew that the results would end the same? In Native Son, the whites are in the wrong because they intimidated Bigger and his family as if they were the Klu Klux Klan. This novel is the tunnel that will lead you to the truth about what really goes on when racial events occurred in the 1940s.

The tone of the novel, Native Son, is deploring. Throughout the plot, Richard Wright consistently shows the oppressive power of the white race over the black people. Because of this societal structure, Wright uses the character of Bigger as an example of the dangerous outcomes which can result from oppression and racism. He exploits the social injustices which discriminate against black people among many other races, and implies that understanding is the cure to lessen society’s internal conflicts. Through his writing, Wright shows the horrific consequences that stem from racial oppression in an attempt to bring equality and peace between the races.

In the mid-1800’s, blacks legally got freedom and equality under the law, but some argue that they are still not treated equally today. In the book, Native Son, Richard Wright shows the racism and unequal treatment towards blacks in the city of Chicago. Bigger obtains a job being a chauffeur for a white family. The job only lasts a few hours because he murders their daughter, Mary Dalton. As Bigger goes through a trial, Mr. Max learns a lot about Bigger and how his life led to his actions. Mr. Max explains how the horrible treatment towards blacks impacts them more physically and emotionally than one can see by just looking at someone. The United States does not live up to the promise of “liberty and justice for all” because whites accuse blacks for terrible things without any evidence; blacks pay higher rent for the same apartments, and blacks are segregated from certain schools and jobs.

It is essential for a book to be adventurous and exciting. There are numerous reasons to keep the readers get interested to the book they are reading, however, it should produce a healthy confusion for the readers according to a critic. In Native Son, a boy who has lived with fear in a place where people like Bigger is strongly unacceptable, this greatly contributes the “pleasure and disquietude” experienced by the readers. Although, it is a personal book pertaining mainly to African-American and crooked beliefs of society as well, it allows readers to empathize Bigger’s character. Wright prudently describes details through vivid imagery and symbols to provide confusions.

Have you ever experienced a form of oppression? Have you felt dehumanized ever in your life? even for a brief moment? Experiencing these conditions has the tendency to bring out feelings of shame and or rage. Imagine someone like Bigger Thomas, the main character from Richard Wright’s novel Native Son, a twenty year old who has lived his whole life within the tight grasp of oppression and racial dehumanization. Those feelings of shame and anger have built up inside of him over years without any signs of fading. It would make sense for Bigger to become increasingly fearful and outwardly violent as he grows in this environment. The problem for many characters in Native Son (and people in reality) is that they don’t understand this about him. Bigger’s racist and oppressive environment has raised him to be fearful and aggressive which in turn, has caused him to act violent.

Almost all of his books were best-sellers, but Black Boy, Uncle Tom’s Children, Savage Holiday, and Native Son are his best-known works. After being critically acclaimed and praised for his works, Wright became extremely wealthy. Although he was praised by many of the black readers of Native Son, some criticized this book, the tale of 19-year-old criminal Bigger Thomas who was a black teen in racist Chicago, because they thought he represented the stereotypical black teenager in the ghetto of the city, accused of murder and sexual abuse. Wright responded that racist America had created the main character, and that “America had better change or there’ll be more Biggers out there” (Wright

The novel Native Son by Richard Wright is a classic story about racism and how black people handled it. The main character, Bigger Thomas, was a black man who was surrounded by racism everyday. He was poor, constantly getting into trouble with his friends, and had no job. He had a brother, a sister, and a mother, who all seemed to get on his nerves sometimes.

Richard Wright’s novel Native Son was published in 1940. Native Son is the first black novel and a cornerstone to the African American literature. It marked a real birth for the African American culture and prepared the ground for black intellectuals to follow the path of success. It also enables to drop “the mask that grins and lies [and] allowed the white audience to look behind the minstrel apparel” (Tuhknen 01). When Native Son appeared to the literary scene, the American culture changed forever and life of Negros was critically brought to debate. In fact, it tells of several societal constraints.

After reading the novel, Native Son, I realized that the author , Richard Wright, was trying to aggrandize a lesson in the story of the blindness caused by racism and stereotypes on both oppressed and the oppressor. In the beginning of the story, he put Bigger in a position like an animal trapped in a cage; with no hope or freedom as pop culture and even his mother dehumanize him as nothing but sullen. Such negative actions to Bigger, the main character, made me side for him even though I knew his fate was already grim and already predicted. Almost like the play," Romeo and Juliet", Wright made clear of tragedy, but like Shakespeare, he showed the reader the actions and even thinking that leads to the main action of the story. At