By:
Richard Wright
Grade Level:
Native Son begins with Bigger Thomas and his mother, brother, and sister waking up in their one room apartment in the “Black Belt” of Chicago—a poor, separated area in which many African Americans were forced to live in the 1930s. In this scene, the Thomases are trying to kill a one-foot long rat that has entered their room.
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