Native son, in this case the word native as refered to Bigger Thomas can be use in different terms. First, native as of being born in the United States specifically in Chicago, and also native as someone who is born in the stuggles of a segregated place and life style of that period. You never get away or over your nativity, in other words even if Bigger wanted to leave everything behind he wont be able to because he's native of that culture that becomes like a shadow. This observation is crucial to the entire theme of the novel because his lifestyle and his upbringing is what catches up to him throught the story of his life. As bigger encounters obsticles and misfortunes, some by choice, and others becase he was not able to overcome his origin. …show more content…
All of these factor weigh in to his defense that if he decided to go to a life of crime is because he feels that he lives in a society were he has little if any chance of amounting to something. Bigger not having an education also leaves him with no choices other than a slave-like enmployment or a life on the streets were at the end of the day nothing good comes out of. On the other hand, Wright also shows Bigger's aggressive ways when he killed the rat at the beginning of the text “Bigger took a shoe and pounded the rat's head, crushing it, cursing hysterically: “you sonofabitch”.(R.Wright, Native Son p.7). After killing the rat Bigger laughes and plays with it trying to scare his sister. These were the first signs of things to come, sings of Bigger's ignorance and lack of sensitivity for life or