Native Son - Start of Book 2

Last class, we discussed the events at the end of Book 1, from the visit to Ernie's Kitchen Shack to the killing of Mary.

For today you read through page 115.  At the start of class I assigned you a page and asked you to select a quotation from that page - one that gives a sense of Bigger at this point in the book. You followed that with a short reflection: What does this suggest about Bigger? How does he see himself? How has he changed? What concerns does he have?

Then, you met with four different people. With each person you had a short conversation during which you shared your quotations and discussed the similarities and differences.  You kept track of these in a simple chart.

On the back of that page, I asked you to write a conclusion:

• At this point in the novel, Bigger mostly feels ___ because ___. Bigger thinks (insert one of the 5 quotations you worked with today) which means ____.