blog number 17...First blog assignment on NATIVE SON

1. When Bigger chases and kills a black rat in his family's one-room apartment...this action and setting tells me that Bigger is living in a very poor and poverty type of situation. His family is obviously not wealthy at all, almost broke, living pay check to pay check type of deal. In addition, when Bigger chases and kills a black rat..shows that he is the oldest man living in the household, or one-room apartment.

2. Bigger hates his family because they do not give him support or love he needs. They are degrading and do not understand him.

3. Bigger and Gus are so interested in the plane flying overhead because it shows the limitations of the black people (their race) and what the white people are able to do. Bigger is interested in flying a plane, and loves the idea of him being able to learn how to fly a plane...but both him and Gus realize that it is an unrealistic dream due to their race as well as their social conditions.

4. Bigger and Gus imitate being white people by acting out or pretending to be the president (of US) and JP Morgan. They joke and poke fun about how they (as they impersonate the high status white people) are going to do to stop or prevent the black people from doing anything really.

5. Wright describes Bigger and his environment physically as a trapped feeling and much resentment. His environment is very limited and 'superior' compared to Bigger and he feels very enclosed. He cannot do much due to these unwritten restrictions.

6. Bigger gets mad at Gus in the pool room because Gus gives him a hard time about Bigger's idea of robbing a white man. But in truth, Bigger is only be hyprocritical for he is afraid too.

7. From the movies that Bigger and G.H sees, Bigger learns that blacks are inferior to whites. He can realize this because in the movie it shows the white people living a luxurous lifestyle with a lot of money while the blacks are shown as "barbaric" and very poor.