Native Sons

Native Son is an interesting book that showed life from the prospective of Bigger(a black man), who has been shaped by society. Not to mention its the 1930s when racism was a huge problem. White looked down upon blacks during the time as the many blacks were oppressed. That's why I was intrigued by Max, Bigger's lawyer. Bigger committed several crimes; accused are and murder of a white women(which is why he is on trial) and the rape and murder of a black women. Many whites want death for Bigger for his crimes. Usually whites won't side or try to understand a black man which is why Max was special. He knew that Bigger committed murder and that people wanted death. What made Max interesting was that he actually looked at the situation form Bigger's prospective. I saw that the environment that Bigger was in shaped him and his actions, something nobody ever did. I like Max because he understood the problem at hand. although Max didn't win the case for Bigger, I thought it was interesting to see a white man during the time period actually stoop to a blacks level and see what is actually happening.