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Essay Archive - Native Sun: Themes of Racism, Violence, And Social Injustice
Native Sun: Themes of Racism, Violence, And Social Injustice
In his most famous novel, "Native Sun", Richard Wright successfully
develops three major themes: Racism, violence as a personal necessity, and
social injustice. He has captured the powerful emotions and suffering, the
frustrations and yearnings, the restlessness and hysteria, of all the
Bigger Thomas's in this grippingly dramatic novel.
Wright shows to us, through Bigger Thomas, how bad things were for the
black race. He tells how Bigger was raised in a oneŠroom apartment, living
with his family and rats. The rent was very h....
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