Native Son

Not often is a black man the protagonist in American literature, but in Native Son, there is fiery, dramatic conflict in the story of Bigger Thomas, the man who wages a war between himself and the outside white world. Wright has given us a dramatic and impassioned look at life in the oppressed Black America. Traces the fall of a young Black man in 1930s Chicago as his life loses all hope of redemption after he kills a white woman.