How Does Richard Wright Present The Struggles In Native Son

Native son by Richard Wright’s portrays the struggles Bigger Thomas faces while trying to live in a segregated society. Bigger is backed into a corner his entire life by discrimination and misunderstanding by those around him. He is constantly searching for control over his life and is forced into choosing between a life of petty crime or of a servant. Frustrated by racism and the limited opportunities, giving to his skin color by society, Bigger strikes out in an attempt to overcome those forces and gain control over his own fate. Bigger fears the white powers that have robbed him of his dignity, identity, individuality and desire to escape those powers in the hope of finding his own identity. Richard Wright focuses on the mistreatment and the ugly stereotypes that label the black man in the 1940s and the struggles to overcome those
Bigger is consumed with fear and anger for whites because racism has limited his opportunities in life and has subjected him and his family into poverty with little hope for change. His whole life he has been forced to fear whites and respect the boundaries which they have set for him. His desire to escape those boundaries that have controlled him his entire life forces him to commit violent crimes, killing Mary Dalton and leading to his death. Fear, violence, oppression, and lack of hope for the future are all struggles he desires to overcome thought his short lived life. The white racist society bigger lives in has categorized all blacks into one group, an inferior human race with no little to no hope for a future. Both blacks and whites struggle for power in a society that favors the whites and bigger was a victim to that struggle for he overstepped his boundaries and leading to his death. Racism,violence and social injustice are all roots that lived deep in American society during the