Native Son

             All are blind but the blind except for the blind. Bigger portrays this, because he believes that no one understands what his life is like that is, and nobody sees what he sees, thus making them blind. The only people that Bigger thinks are not "blind" are the blind themselves. Why, because the blind do not have a sense of physical judgement. They have no idea of how to judge people by what they LOOK like. THEY HAVE NO SENSE OF SIGHT! The significance of the Blindness in the novel Native Son, written by Richard Wright, is based on how people were like, and how people were treated just because they had a different skin color.
             "Bessie too was very blind."(132) No one can see what Bigger sees, because they are eyeless. Bigger sees hatred, Bigger sees confusion, Bigger sees what a normal life is like for a black man, and only Bigger. Everybody else is sightless, clueless, of what life is like. People just sit there and let life pass them by. They could not care less anything, at all. That is why Bigger thinks they are blind. Bigger is not blind because he "really" can see what life is "really" like.
             The only people who Bigger does not think is blind is the blind, if you didn't get it in the opening paragraph. The only character in the book Native Son who is physically blind is a maid named Peggy. Peggy knows what it feels like to be "different," so Bigger does not find Peggy to be blind.
             The people in the book Native Son were all of different races, cultures, and groups. All of them thought something different about one another. Bigger thought that it was only his own opinion that mattered. He was sadly mistaken. The opinions of every one, in the story, towards everybody else, in the story, made up the story itself. The story is made up of opinions, facts and feelings, and, if thought about, life itself is based on those three stat
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