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

Native Son - Segregation, Oppression and Hatred     The novel, Native Son, portrays the struggle one black man faces while assay to live in a segregated society in the late 1930s.  Growing up poor, uneducated, and angry at the whole world, Bigger Thomas seems articled to meet a bad fate.  Bigger lives with his family in a rat-infested one-bedroom apartment on the South Side of Chicago, known as the Black Belt.  His childhood has been fill with hostility and oppression anger, frustration, and violence are a daily reality.  A the age of twenty, Bigger lands his first real job as a drive around 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 critical 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 dim 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 corpse is discovered people initially blame Jan, but as evidence is discovered, the facts point to Bigger and he flees.  He is soon caught and put on discharge for murder.  Throughout Bigger short life, he strives to find a place for himself in society, but he is unable to see through the prejudice and forbiddance that he encounters in those around 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 care, 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 powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.  notwithstanding M axs efforts, the oppressors got their bitter vengeance and a jury of twelve white men sentenced Bigger to death.  The segregation and oppression that exists between the whites and blacks has created a feeling of hatred that has divide 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.