Saturday, March 16, 2019

Native Son - Segregation, Oppression and Hatred Essay -- Native Son Es

ingrained Son - Segregation, Oppression and Hatred     The novel, Native Son, portrays the struggle one scorch man faces date trying to live in a single out society in the late 1930s.  Growing up poor, uneducated, and angry at the whole world, large Thomas seems destined to meet a disadvantageously fate.  large lives with his family in a rat-infested one-bedroom apartment on the South cheek of Chicago, known as the Black Belt.  His childhood has been filled with hostility and conquest anger, frustration, and violence be a daily reality.  A the age of twenty, Bigger lands his first real undertaking as a chauffeur for a rich white man, Mr. Dalton.  On his first night on the job Bigger takes Mr. Daltons daughter, Mary Dalton, to secretly meet her boyfriend, Jan Erlone, a self-admitted Communist.  Everyone gets a small(a) drunk, especially Mary, and after a while Bigger drops Jan off at home and takes Mary home.  As he carries Mary up the stairs and puts her into bed, Marys blind mother walks in the room.  Bigger panics and accidentally kills Mary while trying to keep her quiet so Mrs. Dalton would not notice that he was in the room, too.  When Marys body is discovered people initially blame Jan, still as evidence is discovered, the facts point to Bigger and he flees.  He is presently caught and put on trial for discharge.  doneout Bigger short life, he strives to find a place for himself in society, but he is ineffectual to see through the prejudice and suppression that he encounters in those virtually him.  The bleak harshness of the racist, oppressive society that the author, Richard Wright, presents the reader closes Bigger out as effectively as if society had sh... ... because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged.  And they do not know why they are ineffectual pawns in a blind play of social forces.  Despite Maxs efforts, the oppressors got their rancour vengeance and a jury of twelve white men sentenced Bigger to death.  The segregation and conquest that exists between the whites and blacks has created a feeling of hatred that has tear these two groups apart, and succeeded only in perpetuating the tension and violence between them.  Through Biggers hatred and discomfort around whites, the naivety of white society, and his violent murder of a young girl, Wright demonstrates the intensity of the hatred created by the segregation and oppression that Bigger was forced to endure every day until the end of his life.  

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