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All next day in the house and store she thought resisting thoughts about Tea Cake. She even ridiculed him in her mind and was a little ashamed of the association. But every hour or two the battle had to be fought all over again. She couldn’t make him look just like any other man to her. He looked like the love thoughts of women. He could be a bee to a blossom—a pear tree blossom in the spring. He seemed to be crushing scent out of the world with his footsteps. Crushing aromatic herbs with every step he took. Spices hung about him. He was a glance from God. Richard Wright (1908–1960) His works: Wright‘s works, most notably the story collection Uncle Tom’s Children and the novel Native Son, depict movingly the trials and tribulations (苦难) of lower-class black Americans and their struggle for upward mobility in a segregated country. Uncle Tom’s Children (1938): story collection Native Son (1940) Black Boy (1945) : autobiographical Major character: Bigger Thomas Tripartite structure: “Fear,” “Flight,” and “Fate” Set in Chicago Bigger Thomas is impoverished and poorly educated. Native Son (1940) Native Son Protest novel The novel marked the beginning of a black literature that refused to compromise with many white expectations. For the African Americans the message is clear, that they are human beings and should be treated as such, and that if nothing else can help to assert their dignity and identity, then it is legitimate to resort to violence. For the whites, the message is equally clear, that the moment has arrived when they have to come to terms with their African American fellowmen, and that, if they are not ready yet, they have got to be quick or they will have to take the consequences.（常耀信） Plot of Native Son Set in Chicago, Native Son centers around a doomed young black man, Bigger Thomas. Desperate to escape poverty, Bigger, with his street gang, considers robbing a white man’s delicatessen（熟食店）, but then gets a job as a driver with a wealthy white co