... like it or not. Bigger Thomas is a character from the novel, "Native Son", by Richard Wright, which deals with a young man dealing with racism through out his life. Bigger, a young black man who lived in Chicago in the 1930s. He grew up in a ghetto called, "Black Belt", he was just a young black man trying to make ends meat. Bigger and his family were living in ... regular everyday struggle of the black man. There is only a bit of racism in Native Son because is part of the struggle that every black man go through with in their life. It's not easy for black men to go with this struggle ...

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