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. I ....
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Word count: 865
Page count: 4 (approximately 250 words per page)
