e bomb, just waiting to explode into a violent rage. He is not the only one to blame for his killings. All of the white folk who persecuted him for so long are partially to blame. They gave him no choice but to take the job at Mr. Dalton’s. He is a product of the racism. He was taught his whole life by whites that he is mean and horrible, vicious and awful. When he committed all of his robberies and murders, he was acting as he was expected to act. Nobody ever expected him to amount to anything at all. He needed to create an identity for himself, so he killed a white girl. A bold act, but one that should have been expected by the white folk because they already thought that the Negroes were absolutely horrible people, the scum of the earth. The white society always gave him the same chance: be miserable and work, or be miserable and don’t work. Nothing good can ever come of someone constantly being told how horrible they are. Bigger was merely a native son; shaped by the culture he was brought up in, not an alien anomaly. 3. (E) The climax to Native Son by Richard Wright is when the white volunteers/policemen catch him on the rooftop. Until then, Bigger has a chance of getting away, of running, escaping, or hiding. His guilt was decided a long time ago, but now that Bigger is actually in the hands of the society that made him, his fate is sealed. He has no chance of getting away now. The white hands which hold him are merciless. At this point, Bigger is either going to rot in jail for the rest of his life or he is going to die nice and quick in the electric chair. Bigger has a small flicker of hope that it will be the former instead of the latter, but the society in which he lives will not take any of the blame for his crime. Therefore, he will be sentenced to death because they think that he is the only savage beast and that if he is put to death, the world will be a safer place. That is the farthest ...
