Native Son #6

"They wanted him to draw the picture and he would draw it like he wanted it. He was trembling with excitement. In the past had they not always drawn the picture for him? He could tell them anything he wanted and what could they do about it?" (Wright 158). This was a completely foreign experience for Bigger. Never in his life had he felt so powerful. What gave him this feeling was having a secret that was completely his own, which he had never had before. Everything in his life was either shared or controlled by other people. He lived in a one bedroom apartment with his whole family, leaving no privacy or room for him to have things to himself. When he was outside of that one bedroom apartment, he still had no freedom. Everything Bigger, and all other blacks did completely followed the stereotype that the white world had made them a part of. Because of this, it is logical to blame the whites for all the crimes and other bad things most blacks were responsible for. As we see in Bigger, by lashing out and taking some type of "revenge" on the whites, the blacks become excited and feel free. These are good feelings that don't come too often for them, leading them to committing these crimes more and more. Bigger loved this sense of power and the fact that a white man wouldn't be able to prove his story wrong will most likely cause him to do other things that he believes he can get away with.