Native son

Free will Vs social circumstance Richard Wright’s “Native son” demonstrates how evil can be created by power driven, racist white society. His novel depicts one black man, Bigger Thomas as being forced to commit violence by his social circumstance. The story is an eye opener, one who's main purpose is to bring awareness to many blind and racist whites. In order to reveal to them that they are part of the problem. That they …

…into a violent rage. Wright wants to reveal that society is shaping numerous Bigger Thomas’s and if we want them to stop growing and murdering we have to take the first step and change the racist society which is creating these monsters who are set up and expected to fail. Creating a person who has no opportunities or hope can only produce monsters who feel they have nothing to loose but everything to gain.