Reason for Choosing the Topic This study has been conducted on the following reasons: Statements of the Problem Objectives of the Study Significances of the Study

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1.2 Reason for Choosing the Topic This study has been conducted on the following reasons:

a. Richard’s Native Son is interesting to be discussed due to it’s dealing with communism, an ideology with which many countries have a phobia including in USA where liberalism and capitalism have taken control above all aspect on it. Through his novel, Wright assumed that Communism was the most powerful rival of those since it had many of radical and revolutionary ideas that wanted to put this world into classless society, an idea that liberalism and capitalism did not have. b. The novel is considered as communist propaganda toward minorities especially Black people since it much adapts communistic ideas on its entire chapters. c. The existence of CPUSA Communist Party of United States of America performed in this novel seems to be an evidence of Commintern’s Communist International agenda in spreading out communism over the world and reforming a new “red world”. d. It gives us better information about the life of Black community that still becomes the inferior victim of white mistreatments in USA.

1.3 Statements of the Problem

The problems the writer is trying to discuss here are as follows: a. What forms of communism are presented in the novel? iii b. What are the relationship between the forms of communism and the American Black society? c. To whom are the novel addressed?

1.4 Objectives of the Study

The study has been conducted on these following objectives: a. to define the forms of communism presented in the novel b. to depict the relation between the forms of communism and the American black society c. to define for whom American society the novel is addressed

1.5 Significances of the Study

The significant of this study are: a. The study would be able to help the reader in understanding the novel. b. The result of this study would be able to give information about how Richard Wight proposes his communistic ideas and makes them relevant to the Black struggle against their oppression under the White’s mistreatments through Native Son. c. The result of study could be used as the data for the next studies on the same topic. iii

1.6 Outline of the Thesis