Native Son Essay

             Richard Wright's novel entitled Native Son is a very ironic title for the general concept given throughout the course of the novel. Bigger is a native to this cruel American world, yet the son figure that he should be treated as is lost in darkness like the shadows in the alley behind Blum's Store. When Bigger wants to gain his equality in this world he goes back to saying "we live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like living in jail" (Wright 23). He desperately wants this dream, but he does not want to go through the battle against the white community to gain it. Despite Bigger's dream of equality, he could not achieve this dream because of his actions he performed and the hardships he faced.
             Bigger often made a reference to his dream to be free and equal with the white community. For example, Bigger would "like to fly up there in that sky" (Wright 20). He feels that flying is a way to get away from it all and soar through the air like a graceful bird on its way back to its nest. This dream is nothing more than made fun of by Gus and Bigger's friends. Gus says that God'll let Bigger fly when He gives him his wings up in heaven and then the rest of the group "laughed again, reclining against the wall, smoking" (Wright 20). When they get on the subject of equality, the only thing the can fathom is what the whites have and not what they don't. And they never once try to realize what they have. They are caught up in their own anger and are blinded by it in many ways. They feel the only person or thing they can take it out on is the white community and the black oppression that they face throughout the daily routine of each one of their lives.
             One of the actions that do not exactly contribute to this dream of Bigger is the incident in which h
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