Native Son 2

"The moment a situation became so that it exacted something of him, he rebelled. That was the way he lived; he passed his days trying to defeat or gratify powerful impulses in a world he feared." (42)

Bigger, to me, is just a kid. He wants to grow up and knows he has to grow up, but he won't let himself grow up because he refuses to do what he has to do. I can be a lot like him sometimes. When someone tells me to do something, I usually do the opposite, just to spite the person. Bigger is just like that, but on a wider scale. He won't do what he absolutely needs to do, like help support his family. To be fair, he has a lot more expectations weighing on him than he can possibly deliver, and I think he knows that, and I think that has a lot to do with him trying to run away. Nobody wants to have people's lives depending on them if they can help it, because no one would want to let their people- especially their family- down.

What does a union and communism have to do with each other?