Part one of term paper
One of America's most prominent black authors is Richard Wright writes mostly from the African American perspective. Both his novel Native Son and his short stories The Man Who Was Almost a Man (from the collection Eight Men) deals with young black men in their quest and struggles to become "men." Neither character nor their struggles are ...

Part two of term paper
... what they have become as well as making Wright the author that he has become. Native Son is a novel that tells the story of a young black man (Bigger) and the constant struggles with the society in which he has been forced to live in. A society full of hate in terms of racism and the resentment from those in which the racism is projected toward. Throughout the novel Bigger consistently complains of the way that his people have been forced to live, his desire to fly, and his feelings toward whi ...