n to elevate Bigger to the height of a tragic hero. In addition, he also uses the argument that Bigger is a victim of his environment to achieve the same status. Therefore, a mass of confusion is the primary force leading Bigger to what he did because all wanted is to be a somebody in this world. Wright victimized because he worked within the literary tradition known as naturalism. The naturalists wanted to bring together social data in such a way as to give a scientific explanation for their characters' behavior. But he goes beyond presentation social data. At times Native Son seems almost horror like instead of novel. Native Son is an accusation of racism. Racism affects Bigger's life at home, at the Daltons, and in police custody. His family lives in their rat-infested one room apartment because no one will rent to blacks in any other section of town , except the"black belt". Also, black people are charged higher rents than whites. When Bigger goes to the movies, the commercial at the beginning of the film pictures blacks as jungle savages. After his arrest, Bigger sees that the public is using racial stereotypes to portray him as a sex criminal and brutal murderer. Despite their good intentions, even the Daltons and the radical Jan and Mary act toward Bigger in a racist manner by failing to recognize him as an individual, another man living among them. In some sense Wright is trying to present Bigger as somebody who is driven to do almost animal like things, because of the people who fail to treat him as a human being.
             "Light in August" by William Faulkner begins as we follow the simple-minded and determined Lena as she travels, neither coming nor going. Immediately the book goes
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