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Native Son (Cliffs Notes)

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The suspensful novel Native Son is riviting and exciting, it leaves you on the tip of your seat, always eondering what will happen next?...The author helps the reader live what the main charachter Bigger Thomas is going through, the betrayal, anxiety and the deciet..A MUST READ

This novel is not only a bad read, but it portrays African-Americans in a bad light. You can do much better if you are trying to find good African-American literature. I agree with the other reviewer, we are only TOLD that Richard Wright is a good writer.

This novel is not only a bad read, but it portrays African-Americans in a bad light. You can do much better if you are trying to find good African-American literature. I agree with the other reviewer, we are only TOLD that Richard Wright is a good writer.

I find the book vulgar and repulsive. We have been reading Native Son for 30 years now. The book is repackaged and re-issued for the new generation. The reading is negative as well as a FICTIONAL, heinous potrayal of a Black man? The shame being, a continuous and ongoing market for breeding and renewing NEGATIVE stereotypes of African-American men. Bigger has no redeeming qualities as a man.

Moeover the story is choppy and incongruous. Richard Wright is not an exceptional writer. We have just been TOLD he is. He manages to provide a heiness beast for the covert perpetuation of negative images of Black within crafty verbiage.

I challenge that we provide (ESPECIALLY TO YOUNG READERS) a selection of positive stories. Such as Andrew Young, The Amistad and the mother of all triumphs the Nelson Mandela Autobiography. After reading Nelson Mandela's Autobiography I was transformed. I challenge ALL of the college profeesors of English and Black Studies to do your homework!

Stories such as Native Son, Soul on Ice, Superfly, Coffee, etc., do not represent or portray the power, tragedy and triumph of the African experience with dignity or humanism. These stories numb the brain and cloud the true view of ourselves by re-issuing 100 year-old stereotypes.