Native Son Character Analysis

Mo’ Money, Mo’ Biggers
Long ago, our economy, our government, our families, and individuals joined together and created the greatest weapon yet, Biggers. What are Biggers? Biggers have been around since the beginning of time, they are sinful creatures like yourself that has been outcast from society because their soul has been labeled “unredeemable”. Biggers are native creatures of the United States, but their species can be found scattered around the globe. The term Biggers was made popular by Richard Wright, author of the novel, Native Son. In the novel the main character, Bigger was to live a life that was predetermined for him; to die like a rat. One of the theme of Native Son, was the ideology of Bigger(s) being birth from society. Zora
Hurston depicts Starks as one of the creator of Biggers by having his character present/being in Eatonville start a snowball effect that transformed the people in the community to feel resentful and inferior. Jody Starks was marginalizing his own community, setting himself apart from the community. Starks’ homes is one of the snowflake that contributed to the avalanche of Biggers. “The rest of the town looked like servant's quarters surrounding the “big house”” (47). The home Starks had build for himself, was a southern plantation model house. Talk about a silence statement being made. Starks did not embark and engage with his fellow community, he shepherd his town from a distance in his “great big
The only difference in the Black town was the color of people's skin; it was an exact copy, but with less discrimination. Starks was aware of his intentional duplication of the white society, “he brought a desk like Mr. Hill or Mr. Galloway over in Maitland” (47). Starks is following the white people materialistic style in order to depict himself as insync with the dominant culture compared to his backwards sheeps. By doing so, Starks made the community feel taken advantage of, “like things had been kept from them” (48). The town people respond just how Bigger would had, “it was bad enough for white people, but when one of your own color could be so different it put you on a wonder” (48). Bigger had felt the same way when Black leaders hated him, because it make it hards for them to get along with white folks (Native Son 357). Stark's behavior in the novel, Their Eyes are Watching God had the people of Eatonville become Biggers, but jealous Biggers that were force to dislikes other Biggers that succeeded and forgotten to look back at where they started from in order to raise more Biggers standard of