No privacy, Hard life:Pg.4-6 In the book one, part one: A lower class African American family cramped in a small apartment with no privacy. While the family is getting ready a violent rat disturbs them. Bigger a young black man and the main character fights the rat and is bitten in the process. But the familyhas a joyful relief when Bigger kills the rat.

Anaylsis:To me this chapter represents the oppersion and proverty this family is faced with everyday. The rat is a symbol of proverty, death , depression , and sadness. After Bigger kills the rat relief from the family shows that maybe they could live another day or even that things could get better.



Cover up Fight: pg. 36-41 In this chapter we see Bigger in his daily interactions with his friends. We also see the kind of life he leads, him and friends were planning to robb a man as the always had done before. It was differnet this time, they were doing it on the "white side" of the neighborhood to a white man. But Bigger becomes angry with one of his friends because, the boy was a few minutes late. He starts a fight with him and than walks away from the whole situation. Even there plan to robb the white man.


Analysis: The fight seemed to be like a distraction for Bigger to get out of what they were about to do. I felt that Bigger was fearful of this particular robbery, because even though he had done this before it was never a white man outside of his neighborhood. So they fight could get him out of it without anybody calling him a punk.










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