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www.teachwithmovies.org - : Bigger Thomas, a culturally deprived and immature young man from Chicago's black ghetto, is hired as a chauffeur by a wealthy white family. It's a golden opportunity to escape a ghetto life of unemployment and crime. But the daughter of the family is home from college. She and her boyfriend are youthful rebels; they want to be friends with Bigger. How should he react? The film is based on the novel by Richard Wright. more...
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www.washingtonpost.com - : Forty-six years after its initial publication, Wright's novel remains an angry, impassioned study of punishment and crime -- the punishment of chronic segregation and racism leading the 19-year-old Bigger inexorably toward a set of horrifying murders, a terrifying manhunt and a sham trial just a rope removed from a lynching. more...
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : `Native Son'' dares us to look at a stupid and unnecessary murder through the eyes of the person who commits it, and to sympathize with the killer - to understand how he could have done it. more...
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