Native Son Blog

Max was the lawyer charged with the responsibility to defend Bigger for, what the whites saw as, a murder and rape of 2 people. Max stated that Bigger was forced into a life he doesn't have control over, causing them to resort to violence and crimes to sustain themselves in these horrible positions. Max aims to have the court see Bigger from his angle, rather than one of a blood thirsty person. Bigger knew, when he was in Mary's room that if he didn't quite Mary he would have a high likely hood of being killed, so he tried to better situation. However, Bigger executed crimes that in any society, would be severely punished and he got the death penalty.