"For the first time in his life he had gained a pinnacle of feeling upon which he could stand and see vague relations that he had never dreamed of. If that white looming mountain of hate were not a mountain at all, but people, people like himself, and like Jan- then he was faced with a high hope the like of which he had never thought could be, and a despair the full depths of which he knew he could not stand to feel" (360-361).
Bigger sees the white people as actual people. He doesn't just see them as one force and he's trying to pick them out as individual human beings. If the mountain is not just a mountain but a large group of small pebbles, then he had a chance that he would not be killed, because all of those pebbles had feelings, and were not evil.
arraignment: n. calling into question or finding a fault
drawled: v. to speak in drawn out vowels
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