Understanding HBO’s ‘Native Son’ in Its Totality
*May Contain Spoilers*
10 min readJun 8, 2020
If you’ve never read ‘Native Son’ by Richard Wright in high school or picked it up for casual reading, the novel tells the story of a young man living in Southside Chicago in the 1930s who is faced with the reality of his circumstance. Wright does not apologize for his main character, Bigger Thomas’ crimes, yet, portrays him as a byproduct of…
