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Specifically examining Richard Wrights “Native Son”, this 5 page paper considers how the factors of one's life can contribute to criminality. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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This belief has been explored on a number of fronts. Sociologists, psychiatrists, and criminologists alike have explored the relationship between societal racism, oppression, and criminal behavior. This relationship
has also been explored in the fictional literature. One of the more interesting of these explorations is "Native Son" by Richard Wright. The intent of this paper is
to more fully expose the types of factors that were likely contributors to protagonist Bigger Thomas decision to murder first the daughter of his rich white employer and then his
own girlfriend. In "Native Son" Wright provides a personal look at racism. He presents Bigger as being trapped between the two extremes of his own blackness and the glaring
white of the world, between the two extremes of the history of racism and the illusion of racial equality. Not surprisingly, not all in American society applauded the presentation
they found in this moving story. Interestingly, even some blacks were critical of the work. James Baldwin, for example, simply considered it a protest novel and not valuable
in terms of providing valuable insight into the black condition. Never-the-less, in his own "Notes of a Native Son" Baldwin observes many of the same factors that Wright presented
in the life of Bigger. Baldwin writes, for example, that he himself is a product of "what time, circumstance, history, have made of me" (Baldwin xxi). That is
exactly what Wright attempts to portray about Bigger. In "Native Son" it becomes clear that racial misunderstandings and bias are very much a fact of life in Biggers world.
The story provides a black perspective of the friction that can occur between any groups of individuals who differ from one another is some specific way. While many
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