Bigger Thomas

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the sky and Bigger says:
“…God, I’d like to fly up there in that sky.”
“God’ll let you fly when He gives you your wings up in heaven,” Gus said.
The racial tension that has been building up since the first time the two races ever met has finally gotten to the point where a black person’s only hope of real freedom lies in his or her death. Conditions were much too cruel for the achievement of the American dream for most people, even in the rare instance that one did acquire his or her own home and family, prejudice kept him or her from living a full and normal life. Bigger was fully aware of his place in society and hated the whites for it, even though he did not know why he was hated so much, he had no problems hating back. This was the situation for most blacks at that time. He couldn’t understand why Mary and Jan decided to act like they regarded him as a fellow human being. All of his life he had been enclosed in a tiny corner of society and now two whites were treating him ...

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