Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Native Son

The thing that touched me the most in the book "Native Son" was the ending when Max delivered his speech. It was one of the only times in the book when Bigger didn't find a white person as the enemy. Besides Jan's kindness in requesting for a lawyer and his understanding, in Bigger's mind, every other white person was setting him up to fail. Bigger saw Max as a white man that had the courage to stand up against his own kind and put the blame of Bigger's actions on them. He called out the problems in white society and how they cause blacks to act out.

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