Native Son Sympathetic
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Native Son
Topic #2 Throughout the novel, Native Son, Bigger is seen as being a sympathetic character by many readers. “He hated his family because he [Bigger] knew that they were suffering and that he was powerless to help them” (Wright 10). This shows how Bigger acknowledges his family suffering and he wanted to help, but he really couldn’t do anything about it. However, Bigger killed a white girl, Mary and shows no signs of regret, he purposely raped his girlfriend, Bessie, then he heartlessly killed her, , and after all that he has done and the crimes he committed, he states that he feels good about what he had done and he felt like a new born man. Therefore, these things that Bigger has done and the way he is portrayed shows how …show more content…
“Never in all his life….had the two words…aspiration and satisfaction been together; never had he felt a sense of wholeness.”(Wright 225) This gave him pride in the fact that he was able to go around and boast about killing a white girl. To Bigger this was a successful mission in his life, a mission of revenge. “He had killed many times before” (Wright 101) This shows how it was not the first time that Bigger has taken a life away from another, and it definitely was not the last. He was care free on the crimes he was committing because despite his prior actions, he has not stop killing. “Violence is not a helpless reflex.” (Bloom 5) Bigger knew what he was doing and he could have stopped it at any time if he wanted to. He just chose not to and deserves to suffer the consequence. “We feel for him…perhaps in a special way.” (Bloom 5) This relates to why he deserves some sympathy, but as human beings, we cannot give him sympathy for killing another human being. It’s not the fact that he lived in a white society or that the girl was white, but the fact that he has killed times before and has even considered of killing his own sister, his own flesh and blood because she reminded him of
Native Son
Topic #2 Throughout the novel, Native Son, Bigger is seen as being a sympathetic character by many readers. “He hated his family because he [Bigger] knew that they were suffering and that he was powerless to help them” (Wright 10). This shows how Bigger acknowledges his family suffering and he wanted to help, but he really couldn’t do anything about it. However, Bigger killed a white girl, Mary and shows no signs of regret, he purposely raped his girlfriend, Bessie, then he heartlessly killed her, , and after all that he has done and the crimes he committed, he states that he feels good about what he had done and he felt like a new born man. Therefore, these things that Bigger has done and the way he is portrayed shows how …show more content…
“Never in all his life….had the two words…aspiration and satisfaction been together; never had he felt a sense of wholeness.”(Wright 225) This gave him pride in the fact that he was able to go around and boast about killing a white girl. To Bigger this was a successful mission in his life, a mission of revenge. “He had killed many times before” (Wright 101) This shows how it was not the first time that Bigger has taken a life away from another, and it definitely was not the last. He was care free on the crimes he was committing because despite his prior actions, he has not stop killing. “Violence is not a helpless reflex.” (Bloom 5) Bigger knew what he was doing and he could have stopped it at any time if he wanted to. He just chose not to and deserves to suffer the consequence. “We feel for him…perhaps in a special way.” (Bloom 5) This relates to why he deserves some sympathy, but as human beings, we cannot give him sympathy for killing another human being. It’s not the fact that he lived in a white society or that the girl was white, but the fact that he has killed times before and has even considered of killing his own sister, his own flesh and blood because she reminded him of