Native Son: Bigger
Beginning of paper
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 ....
Middle of paper
.... evident.
An entire period of Bigger's life, up until the murder of Mary Dalton,
portrays him under a form of slavery, where the white society governs his state
of being. While he worked for the Daltons, "his courage to 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. ....
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Word count: 865
Page count: 4 (approximately 250 words per page)
