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Native Son Questions Pages 237-270

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1. How does Bigger dispose of Bessie’s body?

2. Why does Bigger wind up with only seven cents in his pocket when he had 90 dollars left from Mary’s purse?

3. Explain the following comment on page 239: “In all of his life these two murders were the most meaningful things that had ever happened to him.

4. On page 240, what is it that Bigger had never had in his entire life?

5. Why does Bigger hate his mother?

6. Why does Bigger want to get his hands on a newspaper?

7. What is happening to Negroes because of Bigger’s crime?

8. Bigger buys a loaf of bread with his few cents and takes refuse in an empty apartment that is for rent. From this vantage point he hears two other black men talking about him and the murder. Detail the context of their conversation.

9. Later he hears music coming from a black church. What are the thoughts that go through his head when he listens to this music?

10. Why does Bigger go up onto the roof?

11. Bigger ultimately climbs to the top of a water tower to try to escape from the white posse that is pursuing him? How does the posse manage to get Bigger off of the water tower?

12. Explain what the white posse does to Bigger when they get him down from the water tower.