he has never been given a chance to explore who and what he is. He is not a good person, he is not noble or true or brilliantly creative. So in conclusion I think this story is sad. The way people can be affected by others is simple amazing. This story could have been written at any time about anybody because the thoughts and feelings that went through Beggar’s head goes also through each and every one of ours as well. Alright since I’m finishing this up now I didn’t read this book I got the book on tape but honestly I really didn’t want to read and however insightful it might have been I would have strained to keep my lids from collapsing. An A+ would as well be greatly appreciated. Native Son Bigger Thomas has been shaped by various forces. Forces that have changed the life completely for Bigger Thomas. In Native Son, Bigger Thomas seems to be composed of a mass of disruptive emotions rather than a rational mind joined by a soul. Bigger strives to find a place for himself, but the blindness he encounters in those around him and the bleak harshness of the Naturalistic society that Wright presents the reader with close him out as effectively as if they had shut a door in his face. In the first book, Wright tells the reader "these were the rhythms of his life: indifference and violence; periods of abstract brooding and periods of intense desire; moments of silence and moments of anger -- like water ebbing and flowing from the tug of a far-away, invisible force" (p.31). Bigger is controlled by forces that he cannot tangibly understand. Bigger's many acts of violence are, in effect, a quest for a soul. He desires an identity that is his alone. Both the white and the black communities have robbed him of dignity, identity, and individuality. The human side of the city is closed to him, and for the most part Bigger relates more to the faceless mass of the buildings and the mute body of the city than to another human b...
