Native Son Illuminator Lit. Circle 1. In this scene, Bigger and Jack were in the movie theater discussing their planned robbery: “ We better take our guns this time, Bigger said. O.K. But we gotta be careful. We don’t wanna kill nobody. Yeah, but I’ll feel safer with a gun this time. Gee, I wished it was three now. I wished it was over. Me too.(Wright, 31)” - Bigger and Jack were spending time together. In this passage Bigger and Jack show their fear and nervousness of the robbery. In order to feel safer, they decided to take guns with them. This passage is important because it foreshadows that their fear could lead to a problem and the robbery won’t happen. 2. In this scene, Bigger and Jack were at the movie theater watching a film about …show more content…
the wealthy white people in America: “ The organ stopped and the screen flashed with the rhythm of moving shadows. Bigger sat looking at the first picture; it was a newsreel. As the scenes unfolded his interest was caught and he leaned forward. He saw images of smiling, dark haired white girls lolling on the gleaming sands of a beach. The background was a stretch of sparkling water. Palm trees stood near and far. The voice of the commentator ran with movement of the film: Here are the daughters of the rich taking sunbaths in the sands of Florida! This little collection of debutant’s represents over four billion dollars of America’s wealth and over fifty of America’s leading families . . .. (Wright, 31)” - Bigger and Jack were watching a film about America’s leading families, all of whom were white. This film shows how the upper class lived. One key point from this passage is that all the wealthy families are white. This passage is important because it shows what was going on in that time period. White people got to enjoy their lives, while the closest African Americans got to seeing wealth was on screens in movie theaters. 3. “ He was a fool for wanting to rob Blum’s just when he was about to get a good job. Why hadn’t he thought of that before? Why take a fool’s chance when other things, big things, could happen? If something slipped up this afternoon he would be out of a job and in jail, maybe.(Wright, 34)” - This passage is important because it shows how Bigger is slowly becoming more mature and assessing the situation. He contemplates doing the robbery and understands that this job with Mr. Dalton could help him make a difference for his family. 4.
After Bigger said all these things about the job he could take and the robbery, he was still going to go through with the robbery: “ He tiptoed into the room and lifted the top mattress of his bed and pulled forth the gun and slipped it inside of his shirt… He headed for Doc’s and came to the door and looked inside. Jack and G.H were shooting pool at a rear table. Gus was not there. He felt a slight lessening of nervous tension and swallowed. (Wright, 35)” - The first part of this passage tells us how Bigger goes and gets his gun for the robbery. However, when he went to Doc’s and Gus wasn’t there he felt better. This shows us that Bigger doesn’t want to do the robbery. Bigger was nervous and scared for the robbery. Now that he wanted to take the job, he actually had something to lose. Bigger lost control of his emotions again and tried to make it look like Gus is making them miss the robbery: “ If he makes us miss this job, I’ll fix ‘im, so help me, Bigger said. He oughtn’t be late. Every time somebody’s late, things go wrong.(Wright,36)” - Bigger says that things go wrong when people are late, making an excuse to not do the robbery. Bigger also pretended to be mad that they might miss the job, however he wanted to skip the job. These passages were important because Bigger’s anger may foreshadow that something bad is going to
happen. 5. Bigger went to the front of Doc’s pool house to check if Gus was arriving: “ Bigger walked to the front of the store and stood looking out of the plate glass window. Then, suddenly, he felt sick. He saw Gus coming along the street. And his muscles stiffened.(Wright, 37)” This scene is important because Bigger’s emotions are shown. He was so scared for the robbery that he felt sick when Gus arrived. As always, he toughened up and resorted to violence: “ Hi, Bigger, Gus said. Bigger did not answer. Gus passed him and started toward the rear tables. Bigger whirled and kicked him hard. Gus flopped on his face with a single movement of his body… I’m going to fix you one of these days, Gus threatened…(Wright, 37/38)” Bigger and Gus continued to fight until eventually they stopped and Bigger said to Gus: “ That oughta teach you not to be late next time, see? (Wright, 38)”
Jack Reacher notices a woman struggling to carry her recently dry cleaned clothes. As she dropped her clothes on the dirty Chicago street, Jack decides to escort her to her destination while carrying her cumbersome load, which was easy for a strong 6 foot 4 man. As they begin to walk to her car they are cut off by two men holding pistols right at their stomachs. Being ex-military Jack Reacher starts to evaluate the grave situation, thinking of a way out without harm to him or her. He looks at the man facing him, he is a fit man, but appears very nervous and jittery as if he hadn’t done this before. Jack then looks at the man across from her. He observes his calmness and his stature. He can see that it is not his first time holding someone at gun point. The men are both in top physical shape, but not too much for Jack to handle. The man across from her commands both of them to get into the back seat of the white car on the side of the street. Jack in a matter of seconds examines the intense situation. He knows how to disarm the first man but can’t tell if the woman knows what to do in this event.
...d for a gun. The Garret family had no idea as to what criminals they had housed. The Garrets housed both man another night he had john Garrett to fake out the union man. But the commander threatened to set the barn on fire. Herold had given up and told Booth he was done. Booth gave him permission to leave and he did so .Booth wanted his weapons first. Twenty eight man had threatened booth to come out otherwise they would drag him out. Booth wasn’t afraid of dying he was debating kill himself or dying in the fire when the barn is burning. Corbett had walked into the barn to see what booth was doing .he began to feel his life had been threated and had taken a shot that hid booth in the throat he had killed him.
You have two wealthy Texans, Big Enos Burdette played by Pat McCormick and his son Little Enos Burdette played by Paul Williams, trying to seek a truck driver who is willing to bootleg Coors Beer to Georgia from Texarkana, Texas for a celebration. Eventually, the Enos clan run into trucking legend Bo “Bandit” Darville played by Burt Reynolds, who is competing in a truck rodeo, with a chance of winning $5,000. The Enos men laugh at the winner’s pot, and offer Bandit to make some real money, $80,000 to go pick up 400 cases of Coors beer from Texas, and bring said beer back to Atlanta in a mere 28 hours. Big Enos breaks it down for the Bandit, “its three grand an hour, if you’re able to make it back in 28 hours.” Because Big Enos is sponsored a driver who is running in the Southern Classic stockcar race. Thus, when he wins, Big Enos wants to celebrate in style. The first funny scene of the movie is when Big and Little Enos are negotiating the fee than will cost for Bandit to haul the 400 cases back to Atlanta. After Bandit and Little Enos insult one another during the negotiations, Bandit said, “I want to see the cash!”. Little Enos pulls out the cash while cussing. Bandit replies, “I need cash for the beer, need cash for a new car!”. While Little Enos is cussing after Bandit makes his rebuttals, Little Enos is counting out the money, and Bandit tells him, “I need a speedy car”, Little Enos counts out more money, and
that the shy man is a thief he is trained to keep quiet and not say a word to no one so when blackie gets sold to
This passage fits in near the beginning of the story, and it provides some background
Another thing that I noticed about the movie was that the police officers were running around everywhere. Without any command, they were trying to get through the back door and it caused Sonny to fire a shot. Whenever Sonny walked out of the bank they were pointing their guns at him while Moretti was telling them to get back and put the guns down.
Bigger focuses on the question of "What would you have liked to do, if you were allowed to?" explaining to Max that nobody had ever asked him what he wanted to do, and so he had never spent serious time contemplating a future. Bigger shouts "How can I die?" His concern is not his own physical death, but the fact that he has lived his life around people who "didn't see him" and hated him, denying him an opportunity to reveal his potential for humanity.
It was Mrs. Dalton. He wanted to knock her out of his way and bolt from the room. Bigger held his breath…He knew that Mrs. Dalton could not see him; but he knew that if Mary spoke she would come to the side of the bed and discover him, touch him. He waited tensely, afraid to move for fear of bumping into something in the dark and betraying his presence. (Wright 80)
Jack’s reaction shows evidence of his happiness of his new found brother. The same man that played his brother in their mind games with friends and family.
The alienation of Bigger Thomas leads to his character development. He is primitive, fearful, and quick tempered because of the isolation and racism he faces. He is created by the society that he lives in; the environment surrounding him leads to his downfall. Bigger knows that he was dead from the day he was born, the “blind” people around him are either too fearful or ignorant to see it. He knows that what he has accidentally done can never be justified to whites; he wants to die knowing he is equal to his counterparts.
In between this opening conversation with More and the next important step in Rich's complete loss of innocence, and More's own demise, a number of
	Alain and Madeline were a very unhappy married couple and there were many things underlying their true feeling about each other. This is proved when Madeline meets someone. Alain is confronted with this great big beast of a man who works in a bare and owns the restaurant. The only thing Alain could do to survive the marriage and win Madelines live back was to fight back despite the unequal balance and size of strength and the poor odds of winning. When the author writes "The man was the size of a great black bear against this liitle man." This proves Alain love for Madeline was unconditional and leading to great advances. Through this incident we can readily see that this man was truly brave. He stood up, remained calm and the ultimately defeated this enormous man where he could have easily chose to give up and he would of most likely been slaughtered. It was his bravery that allowed him to survive.
Directly following his experience in Mexico with a male prostitute—an interesting cut on Lee’s part—Jack is seen at a table with Lureen, her parents, and their son, Bobby, attempting to carve the turkey when his father-in-law rudely intercepts. The contrast between the scene in Mexico and this Thanksgiving scene allows the audience to perceive the tension between Jack’s sexual impulses and the constrictions of societal norms. As Jack and the Mexican prostitute walk into the dingy darkness of the alley they are swallowed by the darkness of the nig...
“There he is again, Bigger!” the woman screamed, and the tiny, one-room apartment galvanized into violent action. A chair toppled as the woman, half dressed in her stocking feet, scrambled breathlessly upon the bed. Her two sons, barefoot, stood tense and motionless, their eyes searching anxiously under the bed and chairs. The girl ran into the corner, half stooped and gathered the hem of he slip into both of her hands and held it tightly over her knees… A huge black rat squealed and leaped at Bigger’s trouser-leg and snagged it in his teeth hanging on… Bigger aimed and let the skillet fly with a heavy grunt. There was a shattering of wood as the box caved in… The woman screamed and hid her face in her hands. Bigger tiptoed forward and peered. “I got ‘im,” he muttered [.] (4-6)
It was a dark quiet night in the streets of Compton. There was a slight breeze along with shattering glass under the heavy boots of Big Smoke, who was being pursued by a gang he betrayed. He's been hiding for the past 2 weeks and now he's cornered. He will never forget the things he did to be hunted down like a wild animal.