Fear, Flight, and Fate It’s an old saying “Don’t Judge a book by its cover”. It has happen at least once. The cover of a book looks boring or the title sounds boring, the book is automatically labeled as boring. A lot of times this is done. The odds are is the novel was actually good. When you hear the title “Native Son”, what comes to mind. Richard Wright’s “Native Son” is …showed first 75 words of 1142 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1142 total…to keep others from suspecting him. Wright makes Bigger’s character as a symbolic sense African Americans. Wright states, “ For a long time I toyed with the idea of writing would loom as a symbolic figure of African Americans.”(Wright 447) After Bigger Murders Mary he has this found confidence, but though out the whole investigation Bigger’s confidence begin s to decrease. Bigger then realizes at any time this could be the end for him