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Bigger Is Driven By Fear Of White Men In The 1930's

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Bigger is driven by fear, his fears drives him to commit crimes and act rash around white people. Bigger was a black man growing up in Chicago during the Great Depression, he was constantly in fear over the lack of control he had in his own life. Black society as a whole was treated poorly in the 1930s wether it was by ordinary white people or white people in a position of power such police and political figures. Bigger is afraid of the feeling of not having control over his life, and the fear of white societies power.

Bigger feels the presence and pressure of white society every where he goes, hey control his education, where he lives, and where he can work. Bigger' twisted perception of the white world led him to believe "something awful's
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