The three novels read by us so far are dealing with the issue of oppression. Problems, which the characters in these novels have to deal with, portray many similarities, whether it has racist, sexist or any other kind of discrimination underlying it. The people affected by the issue are so different from each other, but the fight they have to endure is not the one presenting those differences to the reader. Even if the story line in these novels show us similarities, the background of the authors makes it incorrect for us to think they all are looking at the issue from the same perspective, only analyzing the situation instead of living it.
             In Native Son, author Richard Wright illustrates the racial gap, in addition to demonstrating how white oppression of blacks is capable of producing revengeful individuals. Bigger Thomas is one of those individuals, who discovers his possibility to rebel through acts of murder against the white society, which for a long oppressed his family, friends, and himself. An entire period of Bigger's life, up until the murder of Mary Dalton, portrays him living in a form of slavery, where the white society governs his state of being. Once he is in contact with Mary, his fears and hate pour out in a rebellious act of murder, because to Bigger, Mary symbolizes the white oppression. In addition, he committed the act, "because it had made him feel free for the first time in his life". Finally he feels he is in control of his actions. Thus, the murder of Mary Dalton serves as a turning point in Bigger's life, for it breaks him free of servility to anyone other than himself, and it is the first stage necessary in creating an identity for himself. This is the self-isolating process, which occurs inside of him, and this enables Bigger to formulate a justification for his wrongdoings. Bigger realizes that he committed the murders in order to establish his existence in this world. Wright uses this perceptio...