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Essay Archive - Native Son: Bigger
Native Son: Bigger
Who can forget the fires blazing over local buildings during the
Los Angeles Riots? Unfortunately the whole event does not seem as if it
was too far off in the past. Although today we live in a nation, which has
abolished slavery, the gap between the whites and the blacks during the
early stages of America's development has plainly carried into the present.
In Native Son, author Richard Wright illustrates this racial gap, in
addition to demonstrating how white oppression upon blacks is capable of
producing revengeful individuals, not to mention being an immoral act in
itself. Bigger Thomas is one of tho....
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