Hello
my fellow blog readers, Shakespearean Taj is back! How art thou?! Yeah, that is
about all I have got. Anyway, what I really wanted to come talk about was
assimilation. From my knowledge, assimilation is the process of comprehending
an idea and / or any type of information. After reading the novel Native Son by
Richard Wright, I have noticed the benefits and downsides of assimilation and
how it ultimately shaped this particular novel as a whole. One of the main
characters, named Jan, undergoes assimilation, that results in a positive
manner, when his girlfriend is killed. When Jan finds out his mistress (see
what I did there) is killed by the protagonist, who he was acquainted with, he came
to an understanding that it was what society made out of him that overall
pushed him to commit such a crime. By being able to understand this very idea,
he found the courage to in fact reach out to the protagonist and defend him on
his trial, even though he was guilty. However, assimilation that results in a
negative manner is when the protagonist kills his first person. Too bad this
book was not a tragedy because Shakespeare would not treat me like this.
Okay
so in this novel, the protagonist, Bigger Thomas, ends up killing the daughter
of a wealthy white family, at this point, he experiences a sense of control
over his life that he has never felt before. This idea of gaining control
through killing someone leads to him actually killing another character in the
novel, which then leads to various other consequences. As a whole, this comes
to show that assimilation is almost always the reason for one’s path to enlightenment
or path to corruption. Fair thee well!
