Word: one-bedroom
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Native Son tells the story of a "bad nigger," coal-black, 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, who lives with his pious mother, a mild sister and brother in a one-bedroom tenement apartment on Chicago's South Side. In a flawlessly keyed first scene Bigger smashes a rat with a skillet, frightening his sister into a faint. Sullen and sassy through breakfast, he begs the last quarter in the house, joins his poolroom pals to plan a delicatessen stickup. Instead, getting cold feet, he picks a fight with them. Bigger and his pals play a game of mimic called...