Courtney+H.



On my Native Son poster I used a picture of Bigger Thomas. In the picture he is staring off into space, which is how he acts in the book. When a white person speaks to Bigger he tried not to talk too much and just agree with what they said. I used a photo editor to put a tint on the picture. It makes it look like there are flames on the picture. The picture of Bigger is surrounded by white because that is how he felt in the book. He felt as if all the white people were always staring at him and judging his every move. The quotes that I chose were two that really stood out to me as I was reading. They kind of define the whole book in two simple yet very complex sentences. In the book bigger kills a young, rich, white woman and in his hurry to cover it up he places her limp body in the family’s furnace. The title of the book is in a dark and bold red because Bigger is a murderer. The book goes into such great detail about how Bigger kills. It describes the way he cut of the head of one woman and pounded a brick into another woman’s head. I think that people who are going to read this book should be a certain age and maturity. When I was reading these graphic details I was horrified. The poster as a whole is really simple because there wasn’t much to Bigger. Everyone that knew him knew that he was going to get into trouble sooner or later. It was bound to happen.