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Native Son: Bigger

Who can forget the fires blazing over local buildings during the
Los Angeles Riots? Unfortunately the whole event does not seem as if it
was too far off in the past. Although today we live in a nation, which has
abolished slavery, the gap between the whites and the blacks during the
early stages of America's development has plainly carried into the present.
In Native Son, author Richard Wright illustrates this racial gap, in
addition to demonstrating how white oppression upon blacks is capable of
producing revengeful individuals, not to mention being an immoral act in
itself. Bigger Thomas is one of those individuals, who discovers his
capacity to rebel through acts of murder against ...

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live depended upon how successfully his fear was hidden from his
consciousness"(44), and hate also builds on top of this fear. Once he is
in contact with Mary, his fears and hate pour out in a rebellious act of
murder, because to Bigger Mary symbolizes the white oppression. In
addition, he committed the act, "because it had made him feel free for the
first time in his life"(255). At last he feels he is in control of his
actions and mentality. He rebels against the burden of the white man's
torment. He had "been scared and mad all . . . [his] life"(328), until he
killed Mary. After this, he was not scared of anyone, anymore. Thus, the
murder of Mary Dalton serves as a turning point in Bigger's life, for it
breaks him free of subservience to anyone other than himself, and it is the
initial stage in creating an identity for himself.
Book three of the novel offers an emotional confusion within the
mind of Bigger, which soon leads him to contrive a ...

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Added: 4/19/2007 06:21:59 AM
Category: Book Reports
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