Five in the evening comes no easier than the hours before it, Wandering around, Treading on bare earth, Searching for worms, And waiting until we’re gone. Life is long, my mother always said, The days stretch into eternal swathes of time, Silky moments that appear to resist slipping away. I realized years ago that thisContinue reading “Time’s Sorrows”
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Confinement and Redress in Native Son
Bigger’s acts of aggression can’t be redressed by prison time, because they are ultimately a symptom of confinement. Throughout the novel Native Son, by Richard Wright, the protagonist Bigger suffers from excessive pressure from external influences. These external pressures are initially proposed as vague, fleeting senses of awareness of a truth so large it seemsContinue reading “Confinement and Redress in Native Son”
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