Sunday, February 7, 2010
Society is like 85% to blame for what Bigger does at the end of book I because if he wasn`t a black man, then he wouldn`t have felt so uncomfortable around Mary and forced to go along with what she and Jan were doing that night, resulting in both of them being a little drunk. Although any boy should be nervous to be caught in a girls bedroom at night, the consequences for Bigger would have been extremely bad because he does not belong there and he had been doing stuff with Mary. But the death of Mary is completely Biggers fault, I know he didn`t mean to kill her, he was just afraid of being caught in the situation, but Bigger could`ve just left Mary in her bed, and led everyone to believe that she had died of alcohol poisoning. Instead he cuts off her head and throws her body into the furnace and comes up with a story that he had left Jan and Mary alone and he went of to bed. Once Bigger began thinking of what to do with Mary`s body and a story was created, it became his fault.
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I think you need to rethink your initial statement because the last sentence seems to contradict your original thinking. Are you suggesting that society is responsible at one point and then Bigger is responsible at another point?
Mrs. Holst
Okay, so I kept going back and forth for how I felt about this, and I ended up not being too clear, BUT I feel that society is the problem, because it is what made Bigger scared of being caught in Mary`s room, which obviously led to Mary`s death, becaue his whole life he`s been taught to stay away from the whites, don`t look at them funny, and don`t talk to them. And then here comes Mary who breaks all the "rules" and talks to Bigger and makes him feel uncomfortable.And because she was too drunk to make it up the stairs it was Bigger`s responsibility to help her, and she ended up kissing him, so he stayed. But if he had been caught in Mary`s room,to everyone it would`ve been seen as a black man trying to rape a white woman, and he most likely would`ve been killed for it. So he was just scared, and wanted to stop Mary from telling Mrs. Dalton he was there, because he dones`t belong there. If Bigger wasn`t a black man, and hadn`t been beaten down his whole life by society, he wouldn`t have been afraid to be in Mary`s room, and most likely, wouldn`t even be working for the Daltons, because he would have more opportunites.
I don`t know if thats clearer? When I write sometimes I just have multiple thoughts going on and I don`t write it out correctly
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