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\nWhat does he look like?
\nBigger is an African American. He dresses in a messy, unkempt manner. He is strong and fit. Bigger is a man in his 20\u2019s
\nBasic Psychological Characteristics?
\nBigger has a quick temper. He is easily triggered into violence. Bigger is an angry, aggressive person which is actually because of his fears. Bigger fears confronting his problems.
\nHow does he speak?
\nBigger thinks unintelligently. He speaks in an African American slang. Bigger is a person who doesn\u2019t harm verbally or doesn\u2019t defend himself verbally; he engages in violence in response to anything he dislikes. Bigger speaks vaguely.
\nWhat does he want?
\nBigger has the desire to be financially independent. He wants to find a job that will keep him stable and that will support him and his family.
\nHow does he get what he wants?
\nBigger doesn\u2019t actually get what he wants but gets really close. Bigger gets to have a job as a chauffer but then ends up suffocating Mr. Dalton\u2019s daughter and ends up losing his job because of the death.
\nWhat does he do when faced with problems?
\nBigger confronted his problems but at the same time refused to declare it was his fault and blamed society for his actions.
\nWhat is his emotional state?
\nBigger has resentment towards what society has done to him. He feels sort of anger and jealousy about his knowledge in which he knows he will never accomplish his dreams.
\nWhat do other characters say about him?
\nBigger\u2019s mom wants Bigger to reconstruct his life and wants him to become responsible. Bigger disagrees with what his mom says and eventually ends up hating her.
\nWhat does he represent?
\nBigger represents the effects of the white American society on the black minority race. How the type of society he grows in brain washes them into believing minorities will never have their dreams made come true. For example, Bigger knows and admits that although his dream is to be a pilot and be flying through the sky his will never accomplish his dream or goal.
\nWhat is his station in life?
\nBigger is stationed as a low class in his life.
\nWhat is expected from him? What does society expect from him?
\n People expect Bigger into reconstructing his life and take responsibility and independence of what he does. Society expects Bigger to be just a common African American person that will stay in his poor neighborhood until he dies.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"36906730","dateCreated":"1301598477","smartDate":"Mar 31, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"cfgonzalez94","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/cfgonzalez94","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/36906730"},"dateDigested":1531974001,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Carlos Gonzalez Response","description":"
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\nBigger Thomas is an African-American youngster. He\u2019s body figure is tall and robust. Bigger is 20 years old. Due to his economic status, one as a reader can imagine that he doesn\u2019t wear fancy clothes. In the contrary, he wears very old threads of clothing, as well as maybe the same ones over and over again.
\nBigger Thomas doesn\u2019t have self-control, he also fears the white society. Bigger Thomas feels trapped in a society which he is alienated from. Bigger\u2019s life is composed of fear, which does not let him have a normal life. He feels inferior from any other society and in order to feel important, he seeks violence. Bigger evidently lacks confidence, we know this because of the way he maneuvers his ideals.
\nBigger has a limited vernacular which we can tell due to his economic status. His way of speaking shows us how uneducated he is. His lack of confidence shines through the way he speaks, in a mellow and slow matter.
\nWhat Bigger desires the most is power and freedom. He knows he wants power but the way he pursues it not consciously. Bigger aspires power through violence. Violence gives him a sense of superiority and importance. His life is very vague and simple with nothing to look forward to. Once he get physical and violent a lash of power fills his body, reminding him how useless he is.
\nBigger gets what he wants through violence. He manipulates those around him to pursue what he wants. Bigger does not really have control of his emotions causing him to make decisions he eventually regret. Once he is in the action of being physical and aggressive he likes that feeling.
\nBigger is always responds to problems with panic. He is always in the middle, thinking of what to do, to go across with his plans, or to just drop out and forget about everything.
\nBigger\u2019s emotional state is fear and anger due to his position and place he holds in society
\nBigger to the white society is nothing, he is just another black person in a bunch, the people \u201con the other side of the line\u201d.
\nBigger represents racism as well as the black society. The stereotypical feeling one gets from a black person is pity, but in Bigger\u2019s case we catch insight into seeing another way black people react to their style of \u201cliving\u201d.
\nBigger\u2019s station in life is poor and low income. Bigger has no direction in his life, since he feels trapped. Bigger aspires the opportunity to have be someone in society. Bigger is uneducated since he never got the chance to be someone else. His mom tries to guide him into being successful even though its not in the ways he imagines.
\n Not much is expected from Bigger becuase the white society in this case doesn\u2019t really care what the black people do. The black society will always be the low class no matter what, so there is nothing Bigger can do to change this and do something significant to change people\u2019s thinking.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"36895692","dateCreated":"1301591276","smartDate":"Mar 31, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"nikki-wiki","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/nikki-wiki","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/36895692"},"dateDigested":1531974001,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Nikki Mora's Response ","description":"Blanche DuBois
\n1. Blanche is a pretty woman raised in a high-class family so she has kept her high-class looks. She dresses with 1940's style fashion and she takes pretty good care of herself.
\n2. Blanche's psychological characteristics are that she is very bubbly, outgoing, in some ways she gives off an impression to the readers that she is depressed or even crazy at times. She does have the sense of being a liar because she doesn't tell the complete truth to Mitch when he asked her out. She also has a past where she was seen as a prostitute where she used to live.
\n3. Blanche is not specifically intelligent or unintelligent she is a little all over the place. Her language is very vulgar and she does try to manipulate other characters. Her language is a little vague.
\n4. Her objective is to find a man who loves her because of her past with men. She wants a new start in life in a new place where people don't know her and don't know the things that she has done before. She also wants to give off an impression of her being high-class.
\n5. Blanche has an attitude of a little manipulation and persuasion.
\n6. Blanche faces problems with Stanley. Stanley finds out about her past and rats her out to Mitch making her embarrassed but she still faces the problem with a good attitude and talks to Mitch about the whole situation.
\n7. She is a little melancholic, confused, and you could even say she is a little crazy. She becomes all these because of her past with her ex- husband. She had to experiences his reality and his suicide which was a big impact.
\n8. Stanley has the main opinion about Blanche. He thinks she is dirty, a hooker, and she is simply a bad person. He hates that she is living with them and is making everything he can to get her out of his house.
\n9.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"36895478","dateCreated":"1301591049","smartDate":"Mar 31, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"mekster","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/mekster","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1222961126\/mekster-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/36895478"},"dateDigested":1531974001,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"wiki","description":"1) Bigger Thomas, Native Son, is an African-American. Maybe a teenager about 18 years old. He is poor, so maybe he did not have the best apparel with his clothes. He has big strong black fingers and he is described as very strong. 2) In the book, bigger is scared of white people and is practically scared of his life. He is angry all the time and is very violent. 3) Bigger is not the most educated teenager and his speaking is like a slang and informal. He uses strong words to describe how he feels about society and to offend people\/4) Bigger wants money and he wants to get revenge from the white people and how they treat blacks. 5) Bigger never really got his revenge, but his subconscious led him to murder people and to steal from them.6) When Bigger was faced with problems, he reacted violently and he began to lose his mind and kill people.7) Bigger\u2019s emotional state is messed up. It is very bipolar and what his emotions cause him to use violence. He is just frustrated with the world and himself. 8) Bigger\u2019s mom blames him for their poverty because he refuses to get a job. His friends fear him because he is too violent.9) Bigger represents the black people during the time of segregation in America. He represents the strength that others did not have. He represents the racial stereotype of black people at the time. Angry and violent.10) Bigger is in the lowest class of society in the novel. His low economic status causes him to react angry to everything.11) His mom expected him to get a job and support the family, but no one else expected anything from Bigger.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"36852832","dateCreated":"1301534177","smartDate":"Mar 30, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"AmandaTrejos","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/AmandaTrejos","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/36852832"},"dateDigested":1531974001,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"amanda trejos","description":"
\n1) What does he look like? Bigger is a young black man who has a big body and that he is also tall. He is about 20 years old.
\n2) Basic Psychological Characteristics At the beginning, Bigger is very shy around white people and barely looks at them in the eye. As the story continues, Bigger is seen as a very aggressive and violent person because he killed two women. He is also seen as a person with high temperament.
\nBigger does care about what others think about him because when he is trying to escape, he reads the papers to see what people are going to do with him and who they plan on killing him. His major fear is for the police to get him and send him to the electric chair or any other kind of torture. He really doesn\u2019t want to die.
\n3) How does he speak? In one way, Bigger can be seen as a dumb person. His vocabulary is not that good since he didn\u2019t have a good education. People had a very hard time trying to figure out what he was trying to say plus, he didn\u2019t speak much, especially to white people.
\n4) What does he want? Bigger\u2019s bad choices were done because of white people. He says that whites have influenced or caused all of the his bad actions such as killing Mary and Bessie. His major goal is to have a normal life in which white people don\u2019t bother him, don\u2019t intimidate him and don\u2019t cause him and his family problems. Because he is incapable of doing this he is forced to live in an unhappy life until one day he kills Mary Dalton. After doing this, his goal is to pretend he kidnapped Mary and ask for money so he can run away.
\n5) How does he get what he wants? Bigger is the kind of man that manipulates to get people to do what he wants, for example he denies knowing anything about the death of Mary until the very end. He fights and fights until his body is incapable of moving. At the end he doesn\u2019t get what he wants since the police caught him and sent him to jail and later on he was killed. When the police caught him or even when he was running away he was extremely worried and desperate because he knew that if he was caught he would definitely die.
\n6) What does he do when faced with problems? Bigger does everything he can to run away and stay out of the police\u2019s sight, but it turns out impossible. Hundreds of people were looking for him and no one was there to help him and make him feel safe. When he is trying to run away he goes through a mental breakdown because he has no idea what he is supposed to do or where he shall go and hide. At the end, Bigger says he is guilty and admits he killed Mary Dalton.
\n7) What is his emotional state? Bigger has lots of emotional problems because he has a mixture of hate and mostly fear in his life. He acts like this because he despises white people and all they have done to him, to his family, to his friends and to all of his life. During this time, black people were ignored and not treated with respect, and this was what bothered Bigger the most.
\n8) What do other characters say about him? Different characters think differently about Bigger, for example at the beginning the Dalton family thought he was a poor, shy and loyal man who had a difficult and complex way of living. On the other hand his friends knew him better and saw him as a violent and radical young man. His mother doesn\u2019t quite understand him and believes he is going through some tough adolescent years. She doesn\u2019t understand why he is so aggressive and so ungrateful.
\n9) What does he represent? Bigger represents one of the many black people who were suffering under the \u201crule\u201d of whites. He wanted to be a free spirit and have no one tell him what to do.
\n10) What is his station in life? Bigger represents and belongs to the lower class in society.
\n11) What is expected from him? From the point of view of the white society, they expect Bigger to stay away from their lives and not interfere with any of them because they don\u2019t want to deal with problems. They just want every black man and women to stay where they belong.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"36842576","dateCreated":"1301525161","smartDate":"Mar 30, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"hansel.andrew","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/hansel.andrew","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/36842576"},"dateDigested":1531974002,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Will's response","description":"
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\n1) What does he look like?
\n Bigger is a tall black man in his twenties. He has very short black wiry hair. Bigger wears casual inexpensive clothes. He is not obsessive out his looks or cleanliness, but he is not dirty either. The book states that he has strong black hands.
\n2) Basic Psychological Characteristics
\nBigger fears everything, mostly white people. His temperment is uncontrollable as he gets very angry and attacks things. Impulsivity is a problem as he does things without thinking and gets himself in trouble. Bigger is violent, he killed a rat in the first scene and did not show any emotion. Bigger is a loner. Readers don't experience him bonding with anyone, not his family or even his girlfriend (he kills her). In the beginning of the book, flying airplanes was important to him, but when people told him it was not open to black people, he gave up -on everything. Nothing was important to him, not even his future. He felt powerless to the white community and that killed his spirit.
\n3) How does he speak?
\nBigger did not speak much. When conversation occurred, it seemed like he wanted out of it. He spoke very little to few people. He was not friendly. Bigger was not very smart and used very broken English. His language was not manipulative contrived. It was purposeful and meant to communicate only what he needed it to. There was no sugar on his words.
\n4) What does he want?
\nCharacters pursue an objective, and that objective will vary according to his consciousness of his wants. He might not consciously know what he wants. That objective will also vary according to the strength of his motivation (weak to strong) and according to the course of his desire resulting in spontaneous, deliberate, obstinate, or impulsive decisions. Bigger consciously wanted to be treated the same as white people. However, over and over again, it was shown to him that this was not going to be the case. His motivation and desire for everyone to be treated equally led him to get angry and act impulsively. Acting impulsively and violently led to serious mistakes. Then his objective was to cover up his mistakes.
\n5) How does he get what he wants?
\nDifferent characters faced with the same situation will respond differently, usually due to psychological characteristics. Does he plead or manipulate to get what he wants? Does he attack, flee, have an "I don't care" attitude, lie, complain, whine, or convince or persuade other characters? Bigger never gets what he wants because he gets killed. He goes about trying to get what he wants by killing people and manipulating them into helping him.
\n6) What does he do when faced with problems?
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\nAfter Bigger kills the girl, he hides her and pretends like nothing happens. Then he tries to get his girlfriend to help him and she won't so he kills her. He tries to blame the murder on Jan.
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\n7) What is his emotional state?
\nIs he melancholy, frustrated, confused, angry, hateful, or compassionate? This closely ties to basic psychological traits. What causes the character's emotional state? This question leads to understanding a character's emotional state that carries from before the play begins to the end and ties to his past. Bigger is shut off from the world. He's mostly all of the things listed above; melancholy, frustrated, confused, angry and hateful.
\n8) What do other characters say about him?
\nBigger's friends think he's too violent. His boss thought he was a great employee -until Bigger killed his daughter.
\n9) What does he represent?
\nBigger represents the oppressed, hopeless, poor black community in the 1970's.
\n10) What is his station in life?
\nBigger does not have a future because everything he tries to do will get challenged or tossed out of the way by white people.
\n11) What is expected from him?
\nSociety expects that Bigger should stay in his place. They expect that he should not entertain the thought of being a pilot or being in the military, but that he should be a garbage person. Society stereotyped him as an uneducated black man from the ghetto.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"36790760","dateCreated":"1301463271","smartDate":"Mar 29, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"ereiche","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/ereiche","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1226183145\/ereiche-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/36790760"},"dateDigested":1531974002,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"...kire...","description":"Character Analysis Exercise Native Son
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\n1. Bigger is a twenty-year-old string black man. He has bad manners and has only completed the eight grade.
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\n2. Bigger\u2019s multiple fears are directly responsible for his actions and personality. Bigger fears many things like: whites, being ridiculed, and not being able to control the situation. Such fears affect his personality, since it makes him feel angry, insecure, and inferior.
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\n3. His lack of education is resembled through his words choices and phrases. Bigger expresses himself mostly trough slang, where he states the great hatred a negative feeling he has for whites.
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\n4. Bigger\u2019s greatest desire is to be in control of a situation for once. All his life, Bigger has felt miserable because he is not able to control anything like: his future, his social status, or his family\u2019s economic problems.
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\n5. One again, Bigger\u2019s fears affect his actions. When confronted, Bigger acts violently instead of intelligently. Bigger\u2019s crimes towards other black also resemble his violent tendencies and desire to control the situation. Throughout time, Bigger has discovered that the easiest and most effective way to do so is by committing robberies. Bigger robs because he loves the temporal control he has over his victims during a robbery. During this time, he has the ultimate control, and others even fear him.
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\n6. When faced with adversity, bigger panics and acts violently. When confronted, this dangerous combination unable him to think straight and solve his problems. Instead, he lies and violently tries to solve his issues.
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\n7. Bigger is clearly mentally unstable. Such unstableness is caused mainly by society\u2019s beliefs and discrimination towards him.
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\n8. Bigger\u2019s mom loves him but unconfidently resents him and holds him responsible for the family\u2019s economical problems. As part of this mixed emotions, Bigger\u2019s mom also wants him to better himself and get a successful and steady job.
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\n9. Bigger clearly represents the typical African American begins who was constantly oppressed and \u201cdestroyed\u201d by society.
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\n10. Bigger belongs to the lowest class of all. He is not only an African American in the 1900\u2019s, but is also poor. Such harsh combination is also partly responsible for his unstableness.
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\n11. Society has absolutely no expectations about Bigger. They just want him to live his life in his poor neighborhood and not interfere with the upper class\u2019 life style.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"36738572","dateCreated":"1301414328","smartDate":"Mar 29, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"arifishman95","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/arifishman95","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/36738572"},"dateDigested":1531974002,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Bigger Thomas","description":"Bigger Thomas
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\n1) In Native Son, Bigger Thomas (the main character) is an afro-American teenager, about 20 years old. His terrible economic situation leaves us space to interpret that his clothing might have not being very good. In the scene, where he kills Mary, he is described as a very strong man.
\n2) Bigger Thomas, fears life itself. His attitude is more seems to be as if he wants revenge of what life has caused him. In the novel, his fear is also described as if he fears white people. In my opinion, his fear is related to white culture, but is not based entirely on it. He also finds a deep hole in his soul whenever a white person ordered him to do something.
\n3) Bigger Thomas language is very clear and informal. To represent a black man, the author writes his dialogues in slang. His way of speaking might also demonstrate the anger that hides in his heart. He constantly uses tough language in order to offend the white race. Finally, the lack of education might also show a little bit of unintelligence in his words.
\n4) The segregation of a powerful society has made Bigger Thomas react in a violent way. He seeks for revenge, giving catharsis to his soul. Bigger want justice for the black people. Even though the whites cause all the anger, the crimes he commits are only to his black fellowmen, since he is too afraid of doing something to white people. As Bigger becomes a sort of serial killers, the racist means increase among the society. At the end, after Max told him, Bigger realizes that the only way to find redemption is by dying.
\n5) Bigger\u2019s angry subconscious reacted in killing many people. Even though he only did that to attenuate his chaotic spirit, this type of response didn\u2019t help at all to achieve his goals.
\n6) When faced with adversity, Bigger tends to react in a violent way. His unmerciful inner being creates a threatening situation every time he found himself in a \u201cdangerous\u201d situation. Through out the whole novel Bigger\u2019s mental health is distrusted by the reader.
\n7) Definitely, frustration abounds his body. Angered by an injustice society, his emotional state not only is very irregular and bipolar, but his response the daily problems is not as calmed as it should be.
\n8) With the novel, we are capable of understanding Bigger\u2019s mom perspective about his son. She loves him, but at the same time, she blames him for the family\u2019s poverty. She also wants him to find a job and fix his life. Bigger ends up hating this, and eventually his mom.
\n9) First, Biggers is a powerful symbol for the black race in America during the Jim Crows Laws. At the same time, within the character itself, the name the author gives him is very symbolic. \u201cBig\u201d serves as an irony to what he represents in society since he ends up being a small insignificant human being. Furthermore, Bigger rhymes with \u201cnigger\u201d with might represent the aggressive racial stereotype he stands for.
\n10) Bigger Thomas is part of the lowest class in society. His bad economic situation later becomes one of the big causes of the violent reactions.
\n11) Society itself didn\u2019t expect anything from Bigger, just because of his skin color. Nobody had never asked Bigger to do something, until he started killing, people wanted him to stop. Ironically, society didn\u2019t want him to do anything, and when he starts doing something (killing), he is \u201casked\u201d to stop.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"36739088","body":"Thanks Ari,
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\n2) Bigger is a very unstable person with a big temper. He is mean, angry, and derives his aggressiveness towards his hate to the white race. Bigger feels caged and asphyxiated because during the Jim Crow Laws in the U.S., he felt that the had no control over his life and that just as a blizzard covers lands in white snow, the white race covered and controlled his life. He feels oppressed and restrained. He depends on what other people think of him, as he is willing to beat some one up if they mock him or make fun of him.
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\n3) Bigger speaks unintelligently. His language is quite simplistic, and his English is not quite fluent due to lack of a good education. His language is vernacular to his race, and doesn't speak very clearly. He uses words to hurt other people\u2019s feelings, and when in trouble, he speaks as innocently and respectfully as he can.
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\n4) Bigger\u2019s goal is to study aviation and be a pilot. He wants to have a regular life without the white race having all the control over his life. His motivation to destroy the oppression is so big that it leads him to kill Mary and chop her head off as well as burn her in the furnace. For once, he felt in control of what he wanted. This was a spontaneous decision since he didn't plan it, but now he had another goal and motivation. He wanted to collect ransom money form the Dalton\u2019s and run away.
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\n5) Bigger is the type of character that manipulates to get what he wants. In order to get the Dalton\u2019s to trust him, he lies to them about not knowing anything about where Mary is, and denies his murder to the family.
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\n6) During adversity, Bigger panics in his mind. He often doubts whether he should stay where he is and lie his way through his trouble, or just run away and forget everything. In this case, Bigger stays and lies his way through even though running away also ponders in his mind. In the end, he chooses that he has to run away since he is threatened by the police. He continues to suffer from a mental breakdown upon deciding what to do, and is cold on the outside to hide what is going on in the inside.
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\n7) Bigger is a big mixture of anger, hate, and fear. He fears the white race having total control of his life and feels a strong hate against them, releasing this emotion in anger and aggression. This is tied to his psychological traits because Bigger believes he can\u2019t live a life that he deserves and the whites are the ones to blame for it. The whites control this, the whites control that\u2026 In order to fight the fear, he must be aggressive and cold, but disguised in respect to the whites when really his insides are bubbling in hate and anger.
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\n8) Bigger\u2019s family, especially his mom, think Bigger is a nice boy who is struggling through his adolescent years in a bad time of the 1930\u2019s. She is proud of her son, and could do anything to take care of him. His friends think Bigger as an unstable person who blurts his anger towards anything. They seem him as a cold person who will beat anyone up if they mess with him, and acts all tough in the outside. The Dalton\u2019s see him as a very respectful young man who is very silent but fulfills his duties and is very responsible.
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\n9) Bigger represents a fragile soul suffering in the oppression of the white race during the segregation of the Jim Crows Laws in the U.S. Out of the thousands of African-Americans that are really poor, he represents the struggle to find freedom and liberty, but because of his fear towards the white race, he turns to murder and crime to wiggle his way out.
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\n10) Bigger belongs to the lower class, who lives in a small room with all his family. He is really poor and only gets a few cents a week to spend on food. He, and his race, are seen as completely separate and therefore must be segregated and have different schools, fountains, bathrooms, etc\u2026
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\n11) Society, seen from the upper white class, expects him to not interfere with their social life. They expect him to get a job in his neighborhood and survive on his own needs, all while being segregated from them. However, this creates a conflict because Bigger\u2019s persona wants to break free from the bubble of restraint, while the white society is determined to keep all black men out of their social and political lives.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"36739068","body":"Great Daniel,
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\nThanks,
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\n2) Stanley is a very short tempered man who likes to get his way, if things turn out different than what he plans or if someone makes him mad he completely looses it and takes out his anger on everyone.
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\n3) Stanley speaks informally and in a very simplistic manner. Because he is a somewhat short tempered man he often speaks to hurt or manipulate other people, especially when it was Blanche, his wife Stella\u2019s sister.
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\n4) From the moment that Blanche arrived in Stanley\u2019s house he has wanted her gone, and he has wanted things to go back to normal, back to the way that they were before Blanche ever came.
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\n5) Stanley does everything he can to get what he wants and to get Blanche to go home. He insults her, judges her, and calls her out on her lies and in the end he forces her out of his house and sends her away forever.
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\n6) When Stanley is faced with problems or anything that he doesn\u2019t like he lashes out in anger and is unable to control himself, and he usually hurts the people that he loves and cares about.
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\n7) Stanley\u2019s emotional state is usually angry or hateful, but sometimes, if the circumstance demands it, he can be very kind and loving. When people tell him what to do or if people do something he doesn\u2019t like it triggers his emotional state and he becomes very angry. But if Stella is angry with him and runs off then he becomes very kind and loving to get her back.
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\n8) Stanley\u2019s friends think that he is just confused and that he just looses control of himself. They think that he truly is in love with Stella and they think that he will always love her and that they will be together forever.
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\n9) Stanley feels like society thinks of him differently because he is Polish. He feels like other people judge him because of this.
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\n10) I cannot find a satisfactory answer to this question.
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\n11) Stella, Stanley\u2019s wife, expects him to welcome her sister openly and kindly. And Blanche expects him to believe her stories without so much question, even the ones that aren\u2019t completely true.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"36738958","body":"Thanks Lyndsey,
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\nWebster","dateCreated":"1301414591","smartDate":"Mar 29, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"davidgarethw","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/davidgarethw","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"36775002","body":"You get points off for spelling my name wrong...","dateCreated":"1301445022","smartDate":"Mar 29, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"Linndzy","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Linndzy","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1290198368\/Linndzy-lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]}],"more":true},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}