After Bigger Thomas, the central character of this novel, has “murdered a white girl and cut her head off and burnt her body,” he thinks that he has “created a new life for himself. It was something that was all his own, and it was the first time in his life he had anything that others could not take from him.”(Native Son- Book 3:Fate) Richard Wright may well have felt the same way as Bigger felt about his bloody act of violence, about the act of writing Native Son. It gave Wright an opportunity to express his thoughts and feelings to the world. Wright came to understand through writing this story, that words could be used as weapons. His protagonist, Bigger Thomas, has a background which resembles Wright’s. Like Bigger, he was brough
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