text: After the protagonist of this novel comes home from work, he argues with his mother over whether he returned before or after two in the morning.
full_question: After the protagonist of this novel comes home from work, he argues with his mother over whether he returned before or after two in the morning. In this novel, a lawyer gives a man a wooden cross necklace, only for it to be thrown away when the man sees the Ku Klux Klan. A couple eats fried chicken at Charlie's Kitchen Shack to experience (*) black life in this novel, in which the protagonist forges a ransom note with the signature "Reds". Boris A. Max defends this novel's protagonist, who kills a rat with a skillet in its opening scene. This novel's protagonist kills Jan Erlone's girlfriend Mary Dalton by suffocating her with a pillow. FTP, name this novel about Bigger Thomas, written by Richard Wright. 
first_sentence: After the protagonist of this novel comes home from work, he argues with his mother over whether he returned before or after two in the morning.
raw_answer: Native Son