Native Son Essay Richard Wright’s novel entitled Native Son is a very ironic title for the general concept given throughout the course of the novel. Bigger is a native to this cruel American world, yet the son figure that he should be treated as is lost in darkness like the shadows in the alley behind Blum’s Store. When Bigger wants to gain his equality in this world he goes back to saying “we …showed first 75 words of 842 total…

…showed last 75 words of 842 total…the point across that Bigger wanted to do away with his girl friend. This second phase of Bigger’s wrong doings only further his distance between him and the dream of equality. Bigger shows that he wants to gain the privilege of equality in the world he lives in, but he kills two people. The American dream does not involve smashing someone’s head in with a brick or suffocating a girl with a pillow.