Literature Essay

Try As They Might

Throughout humanity people have always been divided into different classes, from monarchies of kings and peasants to oligarchies of the elites ruling over the bottom rung. In Richard Wright’s novel Native Son, the effects of stratification on the poor working class are portrayed through Bigger Thomas, a poor young African American male. Throughout the history of the United States blacks have always been on the bottom rung of society, starting off as property to becoming people with limited freedoms. Through mutiny and revolts they paved the way to equality for all racial minorities. Through Bigger, Richard Wright portrays the effects of class stratification. He shows people being kept powerless, which causes the poor to be disconnected from other classes of society and lash out through revolts or through violence.

English Reflection

Brain Projector Canvas

The way we read affects the way we absorb the information, the message of the text we are currently reading. Some people like to breeze by texts, only consuming the most important, the most juicy of the text. Others prefer to completely read everything and soak up the scene like a sponge and be this shadow or director in a movie, knowing, seeing and watching the characters in action. But for me, I like to be in the scene, to paint the scene in my head, paint the rolling meadows of grass, lilies, the one tree on top of the biggest meadow casting the elongated shadow of itself across the mound it stands on. To show the bright clouds rolling along the sun’s shining rays with the smell of fresh air buzzing out and about like a bee whizzing from flower to flower. Then apply characters to the meadows as they sat down next to the tree happy that the sun is gracing them with its rays, eating sandwiches, talking like it was summer and school was finally over. I would mentally paint the scene in my head and “visualize” what it would be like in that scenario.