Bigger Thomas

Part I of Essay
was a “nigger” in a white man’s world. He went through hardships and troublesome events. He was prejudged by just about every white person in the country; so, in this paper, I am going to prove that the American dream only applied at this time to whites. Bigger grew up w ....

Part II of Essay
.... metaphorical table of civilization. In the first book, Fear, Bigger stands out on the street with Gus. He and Gus see an airplane in the sky and Bigger says: “…God, I’d like to fly up there in that sky.” “God’ll let you fly when He gives you your wings up in heaven,” Gus said. The racial tension that has been building up since the first time the two races ever met has finally gotten to the point where a black person’s only hope of real freedom lies in his or her death. Conditions were much too cruel for the achievement of the American dre ....