Notes Of A Native Son Analysis

History also helps prepare one to face the future, so one does not repeat the same mistakes. The quote “History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future” explains that history is not something one can program and plan out. History is information of events of what happened such as, how one’s background and places came to be, so one does not have to question life and the world. History also helps one by revealing important information that can be used to help improve the future. For example, 9/11 was a terrible event that had happened in 2001. People use that piece of information and make a better future. After the event, the security of airports and the military was improved drastically to prevent the mistakes from happening again. If the same mistake were to happened again, money and time would be wasted to recover the damages and many people will lose their lives. The quote means one cannot program and plan out history for the future, but history can be used as information to understand the world and improve the

| I know in real life Henry Ford said something along those lines; “"History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history that we make today." (Chicago Tribune, 1916).

The article “History Still Matters” by Bill Moyers expresses some important concerns in our societies over the loss of interest in history. Throughout the article Moyers explains the loss of interest but also shows the reader the subject is crucial for societies to progress. He uses deeper meanings to further understand the importance of history as well as expressing the reasons he thinks cultures have lost interest past events. The author also mentions that although people find no relations to history in today’s world, there are conflicts that can resemble current problems. It is also imperative to realize history has assembled our concurrent world. For those reasons we can have our own outlook and interpretations of history to further understand the progression and stage we are currently in.

The history that is discussed in classrooms today is not what it once was. History is no longer held with the same value as it was once before. History repeats itself. We can learn the story of history and unpack it to understand. Through history we can learn the effects of change. Through history we learn so much.

Analysis of Setting, Major, and Minor Themes of Native Son                           The major themes of Native Son are environment, racism,  black rage, religion, Communism, determinism and freedom.   A minor theme is the relationship between men and women.      One of the major themes of Native Son is the effect of environment on behavior and personality.

Alejandra Dubcovsky author of To understand Science, Study history acknowledges that it is important to study history because history helps us understand past experiences. It does not change and it helps us progress in many different fields. “To be sure, knowing those stories and this history does not change the results of an experiment, alter biology, or change the laws of physics. But the stories--the historical sensitivity--emphasize the contingency and the human decisions, struggles, and misgivings found even in the hardest of sciences. STEM is neither excused nor separate from its past.” (Alejandra Dubcovsky paragraph 10). Often times we do not realize how much history impacts our lives daily and is accountable for where we are today as

The idea of history as a subjective collection of malleable information rather than a gathering of facts confused me as a child. As I grew up, I learned about the effect of culture and context on information and the way it is spread, written, and remembered, and often incorporated this belief into my classwork. The idea of something as both a product of and contributor to its culture and the way that culture shifts its interpretation slowly over time has always been particularly interesting to me. At the time, I had no clue that this way a key concept in new historical criticism, but, then again, I think everyone in our class has repeatedly said that we had not realized that we were using different forms of criticism throughout our careers

Learning about history is an antidote to the hubris of the present, the idea that everything in our lives is the ultimate. Recently, while going through the Panama Canal, I

I also would like to eat dinner with george washington because he was a big part in america's success. He wore a wig. He seems like a radical guy and has good attitude. He was bffs with betsy ross.

History is integral to our understanding of ourselves and society. Without history who would we be but a completely blank canvas with nothing to guide or drive us? Despite it being so universal in nature for its students it can also be intensely personal. It is history and the collective memories that it entails that give birth to a nation and its culture, linking the past to the present it creates a strong sense of belonging and union in a community. Martin Luther King Jr’s Words “We are not makers of history. We are made by history” echo this sentiment more succinctly because it is the history of our nation and our families’ our personal history that influence our morals and what and how we think. Historian Margaret Macmillan in her book ‘The Uses and Abuses of History’ expressed the view that “even when people think they are sticking out in new directions their models often come from the past” striking examples such as Stalin and Putin with their Tsarist forbears showing how this concept is active in society today. I love the narrative that history offers and it was through my love of reading literature that first awakened my thirst for history. However unlike literature it is a narrative with many different levels of perception and understanding, with the story itself developing through the torchlight of new discoveries and insights more importantly it is a story I can have an active part in. I

“History, I am convinced, is not just something to be left to the historians.” - Warren Susman

“History is a window to the past” was a quote said by Judith Geary. This quote tells me that when I study history I can imagine myself in the past watching certain wars happen or certain accomplishments. This quote also means, that when you learn about history you can figure out what people did that went wrong and what went right.

“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work

Richard Wright’s novel, Native Son, depicts the life of the general black community in Chicago during the 1930’s. Though African Americans had been freed from slavery, they were still burdened with financial and social oppression. Forced to live in small, unclean quarters, eat foods on the verge of going bad, and pay entirely too much for both, these people struggled not to be pressured into a dangerous state of mind (Bryant). All the while, they are expected to act subserviently before their oppressors. These conditions rub many the wrong way, especially Bigger Thomas, the protagonist of the story. Though everyone he is surrounded by is going through all the same things that he is, growing up poor and uneducated has made Bigger angry at the whole world. You can see this anger in everything he does, from his initial thoughts to his final actions. Because of this, Bigger Thomas almost seems destined to find trouble and meet a horrible fate. Wright uses these conventions of naturalism to develop Bigger’s view of the white community(). With all of these complications, Bigger begins to view all white people as an overwhelming force that drags him to his end. Wright pushes the readers into Bigger’s mind, thoroughly explaining Bigger’s personal decay. Even Wright himself says that Bigger is in fact a native son, just a “product of American culture and the violence and racism that suffuse it” (Wright).

In Richard Wright’s Native Son, Bigger Thomas attempts to gain power over his environment through violence whenever he is in a position to do so.