... is terrified of himself and every situation that he encounters in the book and the book shows what may happen when one lives by compulsively acting on fear. Native Son is not the first work I have read by Richard Wright. I read Black Boy in high school and was fascinated at how new and alien the books perspective was, and wished that I could get a deeper understanding ... a product of Wright's disgust with his society, and his way of lashing out against it. Rubin describes the work as a rebellion novel, in that one man decides to gamble his life in order to reject his very role in socie...

• Word Count: 2755
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School