Bibliography
Course Hero. "Native Son Study Guide." Course Hero. 28 July 2016. Web. 9 June 2023. <https://www.coursehero.com/lit/Native-Son/>.
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Course Hero. (2016, July 28). Native Son Study Guide. In Course Hero. Retrieved June 9, 2023, from https://www.coursehero.com/lit/Native-Son/
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Course Hero. "Native Son Study Guide." July 28, 2016. Accessed June 9, 2023. https://www.coursehero.com/lit/Native-Son/.
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Course Hero, "Native Son Study Guide," July 28, 2016, accessed June 9, 2023, https://www.coursehero.com/lit/Native-Son/.
Richard Wright
1940
Novel
Fiction
Native Son is written from the third-person limited perspective. Events and characterization are filtered through the perception of Bigger Thomas as a young, poor black man in Chicago during the late 1930s.
Native Son is written in the past tense.
Born in the United States, Bigger comes from a country known as a land of opportunity. However, as a black man, he sees no such opportunity for himself. Instead, as a "native son," Bigger embodies some of the negative aspects of American culture, and he is also a victim of the prejudiced society in which he lives.
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