Richard Wright's 1940 novel, Native Son, illustrates the brutality of racism within the segregated community of Chicago. Bigger Thomas, a young black man struggling to face society, lives an angry and confused life with not knowing the reason for racism. He wishes to experience life without being limited to certain things or places just because of the color of his skin. In writing Native Son, Wright illustrates the extensive difference between the black belt and the white man's world. Wright clearly exhibits how blacks indeed were oppressed during the time and reveals the vast difference between lifestyles of the colored and the whites.
The community in which Bigger Thomas lives in is a neighborhood of just African Americans. It is considered the poorest part of the entire town. The community itself is very suffocating and unbearable to live in for permanent times. Bigger, his mother "ma", his sister Vera, and his brother Buddy, all live in "[a] tiny, one-room apartment" (4). In......
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