Dalton walks into the room and bigger freezes, covering Mary's face with a pillow unwillingly suffocates her and he notices his crime and panics after Mrs. Dalton leaves the room.
After the incident the only suspect in everyone's mind is bigger. The whole police task force is looking for bigger and they find him and capture him. A white civilian mob surrounds the police as bigger is struck, beaten and dragged down a series of steps. His fingernails are ripped and everyone is just screaming "kill that ape.".
Native Son is a book that has to do mostly with the 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 and that's why they keep fighting back for their right and freedom.
"Black Boy" a novel also written by Richard Wright is another novel which, a young black man has to deal with racism throughout his life. The novel begins when Richard is four years old living with his younger brother, his parents, and his grand mother in Natchez, Mississippi. In a fit of mischief and spontaneity Richard sets fire to some white curtains. The fire escalates burning down half the house. Richard, trying to escape punishment, hides underneath his house. When his father finds him, Richard is almost beaten to death and falls into delirious sickness.
The family moves to Memphis Tennessee where they live in a tenement, with his father working as a night porter. Richard and his brother are not to make any noise during the day. One day a kitten begins to make noise and his father yells "Kill the damn thing". Richard kills the kitten by strangling it with a makeshift noose; he mimics the hanging of black men, an image prevalent during an era dominated by the Klu Klux Klan and Jim Crow segregation law. Even though he realizes that his father's words were not meant to be taken literally.
Consequently, there were little signs of overt racism there. ... The subsequent jailing of Trotter on trumped-up charges, apparently by Washingtonites, raised the wrath of DuBois. Twenty-nine men from fourteen states answered the call in Buffalo, New York. ... World War I had dramatic affects on the lives of Black folks. ... Set up a federal work plan for returning veterans. ...
So he kept piling them (turtles) up. ... Then I had this great pile up, and I said, How do you get rid of this imposter?' ... Seuss wrote the book directly after his return from Japan; he visited that nation in 1953 to see how the American occupation had changed the ideas of the young people. ... In it, a line of Japanese men stretches all along the west coast. ... Possibly Seuss' initial racism gives way to a deeper understanding. ...
The story of Jane Eyre is set in Victorian England, the 1800's where a patriarchal society existed, where the society was male dominated and where women had very few rights and at this time, women were inferior to men and had to marry well to secure a good future. ... This is because it is set during the 1900's, when the effects of the depression were spreading and there are racial tensions between black and whites. ... For example, during the court case, Scout picks up legal vocabulary from Atticus. ... Although she is bullied and punished by John, his mother is "blind and deaf on t...
