WAEC Literature: Bigger Thomas in Native Son

The concept of alienation played a lot in the life of Bigger Thomas. This is a boy whose sensibilities have been smeared by the racial prejudice in which he grew up. His service in the house of mr and mrs Dalton is not with any amount of job satisfaction. And this is why he does his work as a chauffeur with resignation which eventually led the tragedy that befell the Dalton family later in the novel. Bigger is billed to drive Mary Dalton to the university that evening but Mary behaving like a spoilt child directs their to her boy friend Jan who takes her to a restaurant that Saturday evening where they got drunk and Bigger has to bring her home in the night. At home Bigger starts touching her breast, but the blind mrs Dalton enters the room and in an attempt to hide his action, Bigger places a pillow on the face of Mary to prevent her from talking and create an illusion that no one is in the room. This action led to the accidental death of Mary and Bigger becomes guilty of murder. It can be stated that the murder of Mary is a dramatic release of pent up feelings of Biger Thomas grown over the years emanating from a series of indignities suffered by the blacks at the hands of the white man .Even the government prosecutor at the trial of Bigger Thomas is latently aware of this without obvious statement of that fact.The Coroner pretended ignorance of this but the self-appointed defender of the culprit drew heavily on that knowledge in his attempt to ameliorate the crime and at least secure a jail term for Bigger Thomas instead of death sentence. There are two focal points of murder hanging on the neck of Bigger Thomas. It will be recalled that in his attempt to hide the fact that he killed Mary Dalton he has to kill his girlfriend Bessie who was so hysterical in her reaction to the murder of Mary Dalton. But in the ensuing trial nothing much is heard of the murder of Bessie. The accusation is that he killed a white lady, which means that if it is only Bessie that he killed, there might even have been no trial. This is why racial prejudice and racism should be condemned in all its ramifications. The WAEC Literary series continues.

Sexual Abuse

Sexual abuse remains an abhorred subject both locally and internationally. The show of pornography both in electronic and print media is one sure method of sexual abuse. Human beings are not animals and should not live as such. The sanctity of human body must be maintained by all and sundry. It becomes so nauseating to see men and women making themselves naked and showing such naked bodies to the public.Exposure of such naked bodies to public glare is one sure way of arousing in the individuals the urge for inordinate sex.Such urge thus leads to sexual abuse. Suffice it to say that there are other causes of sexual abuse such as poor family upbringing , bad character formation, peer to peer imbibed habit and express disobedience to the law of God concerning sexual relations. Sexual abuse reduces man to the level of animals and must be avoided in all its ramifications. There are dire consequences of sexual abuse.We are not talking here about gay marriage which of course is number one sexual abuse .It may interest you to know that homosexuality which is at the root of gay marriage is one of the sins that led to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorah in the Bible. See Genesis 18 and 19. The dire consequences of sexual abuse starts here on earth. First such abuses can lead the culprit into contacting sexually transmitted diseases such as syphilis,staphlococus, AIDS and other deadly diseases.And the result of all this can mean untimely for the people indulging in sexual abuse or unbridled sex. The solution for the above problem is to repent and turn to our Lord Jesus Christ who only can save you from all your sins including the sin of sexual abuse so that you can escape hell fire in the end.For the end of your life will come one day