Although the hero of Richard Wright's classic tale of the African American experience has a hard time coming up with words, Wright never falters. The top five words in new lists of vocabulary drawn from Native Son display the tightness of Wright's focus: mercy, ignorance, gallows, reckon, and taboo.
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Vocabulary from Richard Wright's Native Son Book 1, Book 2, Book 3
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