PRIVATION OF SELF-ASSURANCE IN NATIVE SON(1940) BY RICHARD WRIGHT AND THE BLUEST EYE(1970)BY TONI MORRISON NOVELS

Abstract

Richard Wright and Toni Morrison novelists are an effort to bring out the central theme of the Black American experience in an unjust society like America. The current paper investigation of the major reasons behind the decreasing of self-esteem in the main characters of the eminent American novels  Native Son and The Bluest Eye. In the two novels  explores a lot of themes, among these themes is the lack of self-esteem that are widespread in African American communities. African American faced multiple challenges to their self-esteem, including racism  fear, criminal, and sexism. The Compare and contrast of the ways that these two American writers have conceived the relationship between racial oppression (black) and the institution of the family (society) in their respective selected works.The problems of freedom and equality which are denied to black people in the United States. The researcher  showed how  the two African  Americans characters  rages against White oppression.Native Son is a novel that revolves around critical themes of race, identity, and family. Richard Wright showed Americans how a Black youth long suppressed shows the gumption to raise his voice against white oppression.  The Bluest Eye invariably dramatize of the fundamental social and existential problems such as rootlessness, displacement and lack of self-esteemamong other nagging issues in the black community.