At the same time, he started to write stories since he was in junior middle school.
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1.2 Outline of Native Son
Native Son is one of the influential novels of Richard Wright. It is the first novel about African-Americans written by a black writer in America. Henry Seidel Canby, judge for Book-of-the-Month Club remarked it is “the finest novel as yet written by an American Negro” (Rowley 2001).With its special features, Native Son appeared in front of its readers, vividly reflecting the conditions of the African-Americans in that special historical period of the twentieth century. Just as Wright said in “How Bigger Thomas Was Born”, “but we do have in the Negro the embodiment of a past tragic enough to appease the spiritual hunger of even a James; and we have in the oppression of the Negro a shadow athwart our national life dense and heavy enough to satisfy even the gloomy broodings of a Hawthorne. And if Poe were alive, he would not have to invent horror; horror would invent him.” (Wright 1998) Wright pieced together the fragments of history of trampled African-Americans and the history of a real case to create the novel. Thus, Native Son has been proved to be a great epic and a milepost in the history of black American literature. Under the background of the society in Chicago in the 1930s, Native Son consists of three sections, which are section one to three: Fear, Flight and Fate. In the novel, Wright portrays an African-American young man—Thomas Bigger, born as a poor black in America, who is tortured by material poverty and spiritual trauma. In the novel, Bigger’s father was killed in a riot by the white and the rest of his families have become indifferent atomized individuals rather than a kinship group combining their resources for survival and growth. His mother always complained that he was not a real man because he did not bring enough money back home. On the behalf of being given financial help from the white, he was offered a job as a driver for Mr Dalton, who was a white millionaire. Though the Daltons tried to be friendly and kind to Bigger on the surface, Bigger was not able to eliminate the fear and resentment for the white in the depth of his heart.
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2 Literature Review
2.1 Studies on Native Son Abroad
A number years after its publication in 1940, Native Son is quickly approached and commented by a broad range of critics abroad. Native Son has won affirmative praises as well as received negative criticisms from the critics in the circle of foreign literature. However, what is worth mentioning, since the 1960s, scholars have fully affirmed that the work is an influential &nbs
