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Native Son (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
Product Type: Book
Product Price: $45.00
Manufacturer: Chelsea House Publications
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Richard Wright's works are universally acknowledged as a starting point for black literature in contemporary America. Critics speak of the author as a pioneer, a man of rare courage. This volume of essays anzlyses Wright's "Native Son".
Bigger Thomas is doomed, trapped in a downward spiral that will lead to arrest, prison, or death, driven by despair, frustration, poverty, and incomprehension. As a young black man in the Chicago of the '30s, he has no way out of the walls of poverty and racism that surround him, and after he murders a young white woman in a moment of panic, these walls begin to close in. There is no help for him--not from his hapless family; not from liberal do-gooders or from his well-meaning yet naive friend Jan; certainly not from the police, prosecutors, or judges. Bigger is debased, aggressive, dangerous, and a violent criminal. As such, he has no claim upon our compassion or sympathy. And yet...
A more compelling story than Native Son has not been written in the 20th century by an American writer. That is not to say that Richard Wright created a novel free of flaws, but that he wrote the first novel that successfully told the most painful and unvarnished truth about American social and class relations. As Irving Howe asserted in 1963, "The day Native Son appeared, American culture was changed forever. It made impossible a repetition of the old lies [and] brought out into the open, as no one ever had before, the hatred, fear and violence that have crippled and may yet destroy our culture."
Other books had focused on the experience of growing up black in America--including Wright's own highly successful Uncle Tom's Children, a collection of five stories that focused on the victimization of blacks who transgressed the code of racial segregation. But they suffered from what he saw as a kind of lyrical idealism, setting up sympathetic black characters in oppressive situations and evoking the reader's pity. In Native Son, Wright was aiming at something more. In Bigger, he created a character so damaged by racism and poverty, with dreams so perverted, and with human sensibilities so eroded, that he has no claim on the reader's compassion:
"I didn't want to kill," Bigger shouted. "But what I killed for, I am! It must've been pretty deep in me to make me kill! I must have felt it awful hard to murder.... What I killed for must've been good!" Bigger's voice was full of frenzied anguish. "It must have been good! When a man kills, it's for something... I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em. It's the truth..."Wright's genius was that, in preventing us from feeling pity for Bigger, he forced us to confront the hopelessness, misery, and injustice of the society that gave birth to him. --Andrew Himes
Reviews
Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2010-06-11
Summary: "Dreadful"
The story is devoid of a hero. That's a mistake. If I want that type of story I can read a newspaper.
In essence, the story is a form of naturalism. The two great naturalist authors are
Zola and Tolstoy, two more dreadful writers.
The idea presented in the story is that society drove the main character to commit murder,
and that society is responsible.
Man is evil is the main idea in this book. It's an old idea in many forms. Religion
claims that man was born sinful or evil.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau changed the cause to society.
Wrightt uses Rousseau's evil philosophy.
To compare how evil that philosophy is compare the French Revolution with the American Revolution.
Study Rousseau. Rousseau influenced the French. Locke influenced the Americans.
The beginning of the book captures its essence of evil.
It starts with a rat running around a room, in which there are four people. Until the rat is killed,
it terrorizes the frightened occupants.
This is the analogy and essence of the entire story. That society is the rat terrorizing the main
character and that because the main character is terrorized by society he kills, commits murder.
It's a false syllogism.
Metaphysically, that view of the world is not my own. Consciously, I do not share any of
the thoughts or emotions of the main character.
The entire story drops the context that man has free will. Yet the author had free will in
the choice of his subject.
If I want to visit the gutter......But I do not visit gutters.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-05-20
Summary: "Dark Destiny"
This book is a surprise to me. I expected to find a young Fredrick Douglass transported into the twentieth century to fight racisim and found myself staring at Camus' The Stranger. I expected Chicago circa 1940 and found, in addition, a dark alley in Camus' French Algeria. The Stranger watches his gallows being built while the Native Son builds his step by misstep, yet they are both condemmed to be free...from what or whom?
In all his life these two murders were the most meaningful things that had ever happened to him. He was living truly and deeply, no matter what others may think, looking at them with their blind eyes.
Bigger Thomas murders the rich daughter of a Chicago developer while working a chauffeur for the kind hearted family. Bigger then commits another murder to cover up the first-his poor black girlfriend. The wheels of injustice move fast, yet in the first part of the book there is no conscience or sympathy with any of the characters. The characters are soulless and remind me of the deadness of a early Orwell novel replete with interesting historical background scenes.
Something happens in this novel...drab black and white becomes Technicolor. The black preacher speaks and the word (of the novel) becomes flesh as Bigger is confronted with his misdeeds.
It was like the old voice of his mother telling of suffering, hope, and love beyond this world.
The world of his mother Bigger kills with his choices, the new world is one of faith predicated on religion but fulfilled with Communism... with Jan, the communist party man he attempts to frame with the first murder. The characters come to life with introspection and self-dialog in the last quarter of the book and we are treated with an ideological finale by Max, the socialist lawyer. The end dialog of Max reminds me of the pulpit which Upton Sinclair chose for the end of The Jungle. Max avoids Marxist ideology and follows mild idealism in the same way that Wright himself did in his strained relations with communist party ideologues.
Faith transcends. Faith in a new society is perhaps naive, but it is faith beyond the morbid egocentricity that defines itself by choice, Existentialism and condemnation to Godless freedom. Faith in Christ would have the best choice for all in this gloomy book.
Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-01-22
Summary: "Interesting Message"
In Chicago in the 1930s, race relations were tenuous at best. The main character, Bigger Thomas, is black and living in a slum apartment with his mother and two siblings. He is twenty years old and had no job, no motivation except for petty crime, and no future.
When a rich white philanthropist who prides himself on his generosity toward the black cause (while simultaneously owning the rat-infested apartment he rents out at an exorbitant rate to the Thomas family) offers Bigger a job as his family's chauffeur, Bigger is pressured into taking it. The man's daughter is a problem, though. She is a radical, dating a communist, and she tries to treat Bigger as an equal, which simply confuses and angers him. When he accidentally kills her, his life is plunged into chaos and terror and, for the first time, he has a feeling of power.
I found the most interesting part of this story to be the speechmaking of Bigger's lawyer in the last third of the book. Bigger himself is a despicable character, but the description of the despair in which black people in the city at this time were living was enlightening.
As a white person living in 2010, it's sometimes hard for me to really see the oppression in our country's history, which to some degree still exists. Through Max's words, I gained a clearer understanding of what it must have been like to be someone like Bigger Thomas, trapped in his life. I didn't like the character any better, and I wouldn't call the book an enjoyable one to read, but I did like having my ideas challenged through Max's message.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-10-26
Summary: "Review of Native Son"
Native Son reflected racial discrimination in American in 1930s. Through the explanation of the main character Bigger, like he robbed Blum, killed Marry and his girl friend, these plots all show readers he was afraid of the society. Native Son just uses Bigger's actions to reflect the reality life in 1930s. On the surface of the book, it just describe a black boy who lived a poor house and he hate his family, robbed people and did very bad things. But we can in-depth look at the novel of Native Son; this is a satirical novel that influences racial discrimination in the country in the 1930s. At the beginning of the novel, there is a long alarm ring; not only has it waked up Bigger's family, but also gives American a warning. It is dangerous if people also keep race relations in the state. Native Son just uses Bigger's actions to reflect the reality life in 1930s.
Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2009-07-28
Summary: "with 1 reservation, the audio book is essential listening/reading"
audio book: a totally engaging rendition of a mid-20th century classic. Peter Frances James's reading and dramatization are simply superb -- and even preferable to one's own reading of the text. I write this as the Henry Louis Gates, Jr. arrest and dropped charges are leading up to a White House reconciliation -- I hope! In Native Son, Wright captured perfectly the frustration and rage of young black men, ca. 1930s. Bigger Thomas is one of the most memorable characters in American fiction. If only this book had become required reading for Americans after the second World War, perhaps civil rights legislation would've happened sooner.
Wright made a misjudgment, however, when he focused on the closing arguments of the prosecutor and Thomas's defense atty. near the book's end. These are way too long as soliloquies and sink the momentum of the story. When he stays with Thomas and his travails, the book soars.