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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