Native Son

In book three, Max gives an utterly long speech. The speech was nice at first, but ultimately it was not necessary for the reader to read the last 20 pages of it. throughout the book, Bigger is giving us his perspective and analysis of his situation involving the murder, racial problems, and society's influence on him. As we read, we also analysize the text that we read and discuss it in class as well as answer questions regarding it to give what we read deeper meaning. By the time book three came along, we as readers already had an idea of how the rest of Biggers life was going to play out, (or not play out) so reading through. Maxs speech was very repetitive as a reader. Max's speech was important in that it showed us as a reader that he had some similar views of Biggers situation and that his state of thinking was ahead of his time. His speech summed up a considerable portion of Biggers emotions and was well stated, although given the time period and Biggers crime, it was probably not convincing towards a hateful and bias jury.