The Racial Injustices in Native Son
Imagine being segregated and treated differently because of a skin color like Bigger Thomas is in Native Son by Richard Wright. Bigger Thomas is a man in his early twenty’s who lives with his mother and two siblings in a small apartment. Native Son mostly takes place in the 1930s, in the south side of Chicago. In the novel, Bigger gets a job with a rich white family named the Dalton’s. They treat him very nicely but, because Bigger had never been treated this way before, he doesn’t know how to act and one day he accidentally suffocates the Dalton’s daughter, Mary. This leads to more problems for Bigger in his already complicated life. Richard Wright protests racial division between whites and blacks by showing Bigger’s life compared to the white people, the way Max expressed himself at the trial about Bigger, and the way Bigger felt after he felt understood by Max. …show more content…
He compares his life to the white people’s life and says, “We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain’t. They do things and we can’t” (Wright 28). Bigger was contrasting his life to the white people’s life and saying due to his color, he was restricted from doing so many things, unlike them who had so many
Imagine being segregated and treated differently because of a skin color like Bigger Thomas is in Native Son by Richard Wright. Bigger Thomas is a man in his early twenty’s who lives with his mother and two siblings in a small apartment. Native Son mostly takes place in the 1930s, in the south side of Chicago. In the novel, Bigger gets a job with a rich white family named the Dalton’s. They treat him very nicely but, because Bigger had never been treated this way before, he doesn’t know how to act and one day he accidentally suffocates the Dalton’s daughter, Mary. This leads to more problems for Bigger in his already complicated life. Richard Wright protests racial division between whites and blacks by showing Bigger’s life compared to the white people, the way Max expressed himself at the trial about Bigger, and the way Bigger felt after he felt understood by Max. …show more content…
He compares his life to the white people’s life and says, “We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain’t. They do things and we can’t” (Wright 28). Bigger was contrasting his life to the white people’s life and saying due to his color, he was restricted from doing so many things, unlike them who had so many