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Wright wrote Bigger to represent the effect slavery and racism has on the victims of the abuse. Bigger is scared, self-destructive and self-hating, these are attributes seen in many young black men and women in America. Bigger is forced by white racist America to grow up a one room apartment with his entire family. The way he was raised, the fear he had of the great white oppressive force, the violence people were forced to commit to survive, the anger, frustration and the feeling of their lives being out of their control were all common in the men and women that suffered during slavery and the racism during segregation. Wright took parts of people he knew, things they had suffered through and ways they had been affected to create Bigger Thomas.
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