Characters
Bigger meets Max through this secondary character
Who is Jan?
The boy who inspired Richard Wright to invent Bigger Thomas
Who is Robert Nixon?
Bigger and Jack have a good time with themselves in this semi-private location
What is the movie theatre?
What is an alarm clock?
Wright's essay on his novel included at the back of your book
What is "How Bigger Was Born?"
Bigger thinks of many people in his life as "blind," but this one is actually visually disabled
Who is Mrs. Dalton?
Britten accuses Bigger of being involved with this political party
What is the Communists/Communism?
Bigger and his family live in this Chicago neighborhood, nicknamed to reflect the racial identity of its inhabitants
What is the Black Belt?
What is a snowstorm?
Bigger has this job before he goes to work for the Daltons in the Native Son movie
What is a bike messenger?
Who is Bigger's father?
Bigger admires this foreign leader for his ability to consolidate and control the masses
Who is Hitler?
What is Bigger's jail cell?
Bigger would want this job if he were not limited by racism and segregation
What is an aviator (pilot)?
Mary and Jan are members of this twenty-first century political party in the Native Son movie
What is Occupy Wall Street?
Bigger sees this man's face on a billboard early on in the novel, under the words "You Can't Win!"
Who is Buckley?
Bigger is inspired to put Mary up for ransom by this pair of historical criminals
Who are Leopold and Loeb?
Bigger attacks his friend Gus here, rather than face his fears related to robbing Blum's store
What is the pool hall?
Bigger does this––all over himself––as he escapes from his bedroom window at the Daltons' place
What is urinate?
The name of a poem we read by Richard Wright that inspired at least one of our class texts
What is "Between the World and Me?"
This preacher comes to visit Bigger in jail
Who is Reverend Hammond?
Bigger asks Max to "say hello" to this character in his last words
Who is Jan?
Bigger, Mary, and Jan dine here the night that Mary is killed
What is Ernie's Chicken Shack?
This word describes the fear of multiracial mixing
What is miscegenation?
The first Black mayor of Chicago, featured as an animatronic in the DuSable History Museum
Who is Harold Washington?