![]() ![]() Bigger's dream is to become an aviator but instead he is given a job through the relief agency-a chauffeur for a white millionaire-philanthropist named Henry Dalton. Bigger and his brother back the rat into a corner and as the rat strikes back, tearing a gash in Bigger's pants, Bigger strikes the rat dead, crushing its head with a heavy iron skillet.īigger's life is miserable and after a stint in a reform school, he remains bitter and angry about poverty and racism. An overgrown, yellow-fanged rat is prowling around the room. The depressing mood of the novel is set in the opening scene: Bigger is awakened by the screams of his sister and mother. Bigger lives in a one-room apartment with his mother ("Ma") and younger siblings, Vera and Buddy. The story is set in the Depression-era and Bigger is the novel's twenty-year-old protagonist, a resident of the "Black Belt," a Chicago ghetto that is predominantly black. Native Son is divided into three books entitled Fear, Flight and Fate, depicting the final days of Bigger Thomas. ![]()
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