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Native Sun: Society's Responsibility

In the novel, Native Son, author Richard Wright presents a compelling case that society is responsible for creating Bigger Thomas and people like Bigger. Bigger is a tragic figure, as he represents the African American experience of oppression in America. Wright states in the introduction, however, that there are Biggers among every oppressed people throughout the world. He argues that many of the rapidly changing and uncertain conditions of the modern world have created people like Bigger, searching for a place for themselves in a world that, for them, has lost many of its cultural and spiritual centers. Because Wright chose to deal with the experience he knew best, Native Son is an ...

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of being discovered by Mrs. Dalton. This internalized social oppression literally forces his hand when he holds the pillow over Mary's face, suffocating the drunken Mary. Bigger knew that no white person would believe he was not trying to rape Mary. As Bigger tells Max, "They believe that. ...when folks say things like that about you, you whipped before you born." Bigger's sense of lifelong hopelessness becomes evident when he says, "I don't have to do nothing for 'em to get me. The first white finger they point at me, I'm a goner, see?" (pg. 325). That is why Bigger said he used violence. Violence is Bigger's only outlet of expression, the only way he can rebel against the society that attempts to squash him at every turn.
Wright attempts to blame Bigger’s environment as an influence on Bigger. Mr. Dalton, the father of Mary, owns the building Bigger and his family live in. He charges Negroes more for the same room than he does for whites, and he said that he wouldn’t rent a ...

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Added: 10/23/2004 04:47:35 PM
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