Native Son #9

"It was all over. He had to save himself. But it was familiar, this running away. All his life he had been knowing that sooner or later something like this would come to him. And now, here it was. He had always felt outside of this white world, and now it was true" (Wright 221). Bigger's entire life had been spent trying to run away from the white world. From how they treated him, what they expected of him, and how that made him feel. Finally, he was doing what all the whites expected of him. He was not running from them metaphorically anymore, but literally. He had committed a crime, exactly as expected of him due to the fact that hes black, and was now trying to avoid facing the punishment he deserved from the whites. This situation was not a surprise to him. This is so simply because he had heard so many times from the whites that he was a no good, black, criminal. They said it so much that sadly, he began believing them. It was official that he could never fit in in the white world, he had tried and quickly failed. Now that he had that experience, all that was left to do in his life was whatever he could to survive.