time period in which they lived in. Often the overall tone, and attitude

of the novel is due to factors, that they have been born with, such as the

environment they grew up in, who raised them, or moral ethics were

instilled into their way of thinking.

Richard Wright is an African-American author whose writings greatly

reflected the time period in which he lived in. Native Son and Black Boy

are two classic examples of Wright's works that are profoundly influenced

Wright was born on September 4, 1908, in Natchez, Mississippi on a

small farm much in the same manner that his hero, Bigger Thomas, began his

life. Deprived, poor, and segregated against, Wright spent much of his

early childhood in pain, fear, and shame. He was repeatedly beaten by his

mother and grandmother for trying to fight back at the segregation imposed

upon him. He was also beaten by whites to whom he had to turn for jobs and

In a way Bigger Thomas is an autobiographical character because so much

white asti system, and his revolt takes the form of crime against the white

grown up in a 'ghetto' of Mississippi, in a society in which he attempts to

was) Bigger becomes the total embodiment of that society's prejudices and

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