Native Son

Anti-heros live all around us, but what about in the 1950's? Native Son is a great book, it is a depression set novel in Chicago. The main character Bigger Thomas goes through three dramatic chapters of devastation and tragedy, fear, flight, and fate. This novel draws you in from cover to end. Beginning from a simple job, working in the Dalton's home to a dramatic twist of murder. Bigger is not trying to be caught in the Mr. Dalton's daughter's room, Mary. So he decides to cover her mouth with a pillow, which leads to her murder. He goes further to enter Mary's body into the basement furnace. All seemed well until the inhalation of the smokes ashes from the furnace rises throughout the Dalton's home, when two FBI agents come to investigate the unanimous disappearance of Mary. The ashes and a ring given to Mary by her mother was discovered and sent to run for DNA matches.

Bigger knows he will get caught and hung if they find him so he decides to flee, which begins the chapter called "Flight". Bigger gets his girlfriend Bessie involved and they tell the Dalton family that Mary was kidnapped and ask for ransom money. The police are already on to Bigger at this time, because he also disappeared, due to his fear of being caught.

Bessie and Bigger are on the run to find shelter. When they finally find an abandoned apartment complex Bigger decides to kill Bessie with a brick and throw her out the window into the snow. Bigger does this because Bessie no longer wants to be apart of Bigger's problems. After a few days the police finally catch Bigger on a rooftop, where the fate of his future lies.

This book is a thrill quencher, as much as the suspense of the novel draws you in, you do not want Bigger to caught. Does he really get caught and or killed? That is a question for you to answer when you read this book