Native Son

Native Son - Richard Wright #1 Post-Reading After Bigger Thomas, the central character of this novel, has “murdered a white girl and cut her head off and burnt her body,” he thinks that he has “created a new life for himself. It was something that was all his own, and it was the first time in his life he had anything that others could not take from him.”(Native Son- Book 3:Fate) Richard Wright may well …

…s use their literary works to express themselves. Every story told, every novel ever written, every plot created, always had an idea behind it, a theme, an opinion. Authors used their stories, novels, and plots to communicate to the public their ideas and opinions. Richard Wright wrote Native Son in order to communicate his thoughts on racial discrimination and black response to that injustice. He wrote Native Son to share his thoughts with the world.