The author, Richard Wright, in "Native Son" uses the time period of the 1940s when Jim Crow laws were in full force to hone in on the main character Bigger Thomas who is in to some extent a form of himself. I believe this period of time shapes Bigger's frightening conscience that drives him to rage and commit gruesome murders, which is why it foreshadows his fate and death. “Sometimes I feel like something terrible will happen to me.” (p. 28) “Bigger paused and narrowed his eyes. "No; It's not like anything happens to me. It's... it's like I'm about to do something I can't help..." (p. 30) Wright also uses figurative language, particularly diction, to guide in time periods, cultural language to excavate the effect of the true intent of the novel. to reflect the South Side of Chicago from the point of view of the blacks. Richard Wright from the autobiographical sketch “The Ethics of Living Jim Crow” draws an analogy between himself and Bigger Thomas, in the novel “Native Son” because both dealt with Southern racism. Richard Wright and Bigger Thomas growing up with forced racial segregation in the South justifies their disposition towards white individuals. Racial segregation somehow determines how they will experience life and what actions they may take because of oppression built up over the years due to segregation. Example from "Native Son" is when the character Bigger says "Maybe they're right not to fly there, because if I took a plane I'd bring a couple of bombs with me and throw them for sure. .." (page 26) Wright's fight against racial segregation took place when he wrote the novel “Native Son” “a fierce, angry, powerful work of fiction that became the first to be selected from... middle of paper... .. .; he was possessed by a strange, imperious nervous energy. "I'll be out of this in no time." (pg. 233) Another action taken by Bigger which also shows that he is not a “tragic figure”. “Bigger's shame towards his mother amounted to. She stood with her fists clenched, her eyes burning, she felt that at another moment he would pounce on her. (pg. 237) Due to oppression on a societal level, he forces Bigger to kill Mary Dalton while he was in his room that late night, “because he knows that no white person would believe that he wasn't trying to rape Mary.” “As Bigger tells Max, “The ones who… when people say things like that about you, you were whipped before you were born. “In this same conversation, Bigger's sense of lifelong desperation is evident when he says: (Spotlight on Tragedy) “I don't have to do anything for them to get me. The first white figure they point out to me, I'm done for, you see?" (p. 325