In Native Son Bigger struggles against authority. The authority is the white people.
Bigger wants to have the same power as blacks. In the movie" The Heat" Stephen
Moore played by Sean Lewis is the main charectar or protagonist. The authority is the
leader of a gang that Stephen feels he should be the leader of. Both protagonists become
powerful in their minds after committing murders and both feel that they deserve more
When Bigger kills Mary and Bessie he feels like he has more powerful. In " The
Heat" Stephen is a 20 year old gang member who has been in the gang for under a year.
Steel is the leader of the gang who has been a gang member for over ten years. Steel
has a lot of power and connections on the street and in his gang. When Stephen kills three
rival gang members he feels like he has more power and influence than Steel amongst his
fellow gang members. There is tension in the movie between Stephen and Steel the
gang leader as the other gang members talk about "a change in the guard" in the gang.
Stephen and Bigger have some things in common. Both live in the bad part of
town, and both don't get along with their parents. But both live in very different times. Back
then blacks weren't respected or accepted, But over the years things changed and now
blacks are accepted in society. When both men commit murder they feel more powerful.
Both want to become more powerful and feel that violence is the answer. And both
murders are the most important thing that has ever happened to both bigger and Stephen.
Steel is the authority in " The Heat " and the white society is the authority in "Native
Son" . Both have more power than the protagonists. The white society keep the blacks
from being equal from them. Much like Steel does with the rest of the gang.
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