1. Reading Journal for Native Son K. Melvin

2. Journal #1 From what point of view is Native Son written, and what effect does that have on the story?

3. Journal #2 What does Bigger mean when he says, "Half the time I feel like I'm on the outside of the world peeping in through a knot-hole in the fence. . ."?

4. Journal #3 What is Bigger saying when he tells Gus that white folks live "Right down here in my stomach"?

5. Journal #4 To what is Wright referring when he writes, ". . . they were a sort of a great natural force, like a stormy sky looming overhead, or like a deep swirling river stretching suddenly at one's feet in the dark"?

6. Journal #5 How does Bigger rationalize to himself that Mary and Bessie were responsible for their own deaths?

7. Journal #6