Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Native Son
- Bigger Thomas
- protagonist
- poor uneducated black man
- lack of education=menial labor
- feels trapped in his life
- fears and hates whites
- views whites as collective overwhelming force: tells him how to live
- Bigger is the product of American culture and the violence and racism that suffuse it
- Effect of racism on the psychological state of its black victims
- 1930s Chicago southside of city
- 1. sabotages white man robbery by violently attacking member of his gang
- 2. Bigger takes job as chauffeur for Daltons
- 3. Bigger drives Mary to meet Jan
- Mary is Mr. Daltons Daughter
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