Native Son, Book 3 Analysis
In the last section of Native Son, "FATE," Wright restates the themes and prominent concepts portrayed in the novel. The most important theme is that Bigger never made any choice which resulted in his murders. He was born into a life of oppression that forced him to strike out at the force controlling him in search of a definition of life. It was fated that Bigger would kill, and now it is fated that he must die. This is most evident in lines like "Now I come to think of it, it seems like something like this just had to be." In order to stop this problem, we do not need to set an example by kill those who try to break the bonds of oppression; we need to stop the oppression. There is a lot more to Wright's ideals than oppression breeding hate and crime. Hate breeds hate in any situation; "the wheel of blood continues to turn;" people must recognize that others are humans like themselves, not monsters or a force of nature; "instead of men feeling that they are facing other......
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