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    In the novel Native SonWright shows how the white race has power. The character Bigger Thomas struggles to escape the racism in the story. Bigger Thomas is a poor African-American man residing in the southside of Chicago. The author uses imagery to help the reader imagine what the residence appears to be like. The story starts with Bigger trying to rid a rat in his home. Bigger lives in this poor white community away from white establishments. The racism is shown early on in the book by the

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    heavy; the stability removed from my body leaving trembling hand and legs‚ acute hearing and sight because everything is paradox in my

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    From a young age‚ members in society are impressionable on those around them in their attempts to conform to the ever-expanding set of social norms their peers follow and enforce. The characters in the book Native Son by Richard Wright are no different. In this story‚ a young black man‚ Bigger Thomas‚ navigates through Chicago in the 1930s‚ during a time of severe segregation and discrimination against African-Americans‚ to the point where they have almost no freedom at all. To support his family

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    Native Son By Richard Wright Bigger Thomas‚ I believe‚ is neither the protagonist nor antagonist of Native Son. Richard Wright uses Bigger to show how the mindsets of blacks were psychologically altered due to racism in the 1930’s. Bigger’s life was lived in constant anger and fear towards the whites who were always portrayed as better and superior forcing him and the rest of the black community to live in poverty‚ segregated from the white community. Another emotion he also felt was power in

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    In Richard Wright ’s "Native Son"‚ emotions are a very important element‚ especially that of fear. Blacks are afraid of whites‚ whites are afraid of blacks‚ women are afraid of men‚ and everyone is afraid of communists. In the novel‚ however‚ no fear is as important as the fears that Bigger Thomas feels. If it weren ’t for fear‚ nothing would happen in the novel. Fear is a catalyst for Bigger that‚ without which‚ Bigger would be living the same life and nothing would change. Fear is the driving force

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    hated blacks in the 60’s and 70’s because they felt that they were inferior to them and that they were supposed to be segregated. Blacks hated the whites for making them feel inferior and having more opportunities than what they had. The book Native Son is about the segregation of blacks and whites in the 1940’s. Bigger‚ the main character of this book‚ killed a white girl and was sentenced to the death penalty for it. The white prosecutors in the book tried to pin many other crimes on him such

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    Native Son By: Richard Wright Native Son by Richard Wright is about a young‚ uneducated‚ 20 year old‚ poor black man‚ who lives is in a 1930’s Chicago society that makes blacks feel obsolete. Bigger Thomas is the main character‚ he is the oldest in his family with a little brother and sister‚ his family depends on him and his mom. Wright describes Bigger as a scared and confused person with very little ethics as they were taken away from him by society. Bigger is scared of white people because

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    The Color Red in Native Son Introduction * In Native SonRichard Wright uses the motif of the color red to represent violence‚ anger‚ fear‚ desire‚ and Communism‚ thus conveying Bigger’s fear and hatred of whites. * “He watched her through the rear mirror as he drove; she was kind of pretty‚ but very little. She looked like a doll in a show window: black eyes‚ white face‚ red lips.” (62) The red in this passage represents Bigger’s desire and how captivating it is. The last sentence is

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    Richard Wright Born a black boy in Mississippi in the 1908‚ Richard Wright could not have expected to gain much education or achieve any greatness in his life. His mother was a school teacher and his father an illiterate sharecropper. Yet‚ at the age of 16 he was published in a newspaper‚ at 32 wrote his bestseller Native Son‚ at 33 married a white woman‚ and‚ shortly before his death‚ moved to Paris‚ France. As a child‚ Wright was forced to move around constantly because his mother was forced

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    without the constant stream of water. In "Native Son" by Richard Wright‚ the main character‚ Bigger Thomas‚ has his traits shaped and formed by the culture of oppression he lives in. The oppression towards people of his race‚ set in the 1930’s‚ causes Bigger to develop certain attitudes and behaviors towards white people. Bigger sees the world as a place he does now own; his surroundings tell him that white people "get a chance to do everything" (Wright 16) while he has a black man does not. Bigger

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