Native Son Thesis

Richard Wright’s most prominent works are Black Boy,and Native Son. According to this source “Blacks had been leaving the South since the Emancipation Proclamation, but the numbers coming north increased exponentially with time. In 1910, blacks in America were overwhelmingly rural, with nine out of ten living in former Confederate states. From 1915 to 1930, one million blacks journeyed north. Richard Wright was part of this exodus from poverty and racism. By 1960, 75% of blacks in America lived in northern cities. This incredible alteration in the demographics of the United States had a profound effect on blacks as well as the political makeup of the nation as a whole. There are many reasons for this, the most important being the tremendous
Dalton in Native Son, concerted efforts were made to keep them in the ghetto”(Historical Context: Native Son). Black were the one who mostly faced racial problems, and wanted to move from the south, just as much how teenagers, and myself wanted to move out of my parents’
There were also many political problems that led to the Great Depression. During that time period, Mark Twain who published The Adventure of Tom Sawyer. As in revealed Twain’s childhood, and life back then; “In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Twain not only drew on his own experiences growing up in Missouri, he also mined material from several different and popular literary genres of the late nineteenth century. These included the dime novel, the sentimental romance, the children's story, and stories using local or regional color. Weaving all these disparate threads together, he produced a novel that was fresh in its approach, with characters that many people found, if not endearing, at least tongue-in-cheek humorous. Twain also made use of local dialect in his telling of the tale, which added a note of realism to what otherwise might have been passed off as a simple children's story”(The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Excerpt). In the story of The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventure of Tom Sawyer. Which describes the Childhood of Mark Twain, and pictured the different kind of cultures who lived in America who also faced racisms, and many other