![]() ![]() The legal process by which Bigger is tried is contrasted with the “desires” of the Chicago community at large, especially its white community, as represented by the opinions of the State’s Attorney, Buckley. Both men must come to terms with their crimes in the maw of the criminal justice system.įor Bigger, however, this system is stacked against him to an almost unimaginable degree, as Mary is a member of wealthy white Chicago society. ![]() ![]() Native Son is a take on the fundamental story of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment: two lonely young men, Raskolnikov and Bigger, kill for reasons they cannot explain, and also kill innocent individuals unrelated to their original targets. The novel turns on Bigger’s crimes: his murder of Mary, which incites so much protest in the white community of Chicago and his murder of Bessie, an African-American woman-which, tellingly, does not set off the same firestorm of anger. ![]()
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