"Native Son" Chapter 3

Planning The Big Heist
In chapter three, Bigger and his friends Gus, Jack, and GH met at old Doc's pool room discussing their big heist. At first it started with Bigger and Gus and GH hanging out at old Doc's smoking, playing a game, and having a conversation about Bigger getting a new job. All of a sudden the word Old Blum came out of Bigger mouth. The gang started asked Bigger why all of the sudden his bringing Old Blums name, bigger then said because they were going to rob him. Then as soon as bigger bring up robbing a white person the gang started to get nervous. Gus was angry and said he is not going to do the robbery, and the rest of the gang agreed with him. That robbing a white man would mean entering into new territory and dealing with cops. But this idea of robbing old Blums didn't brother Bigger that much, even though he was the most scared of them all. Bigger and Gus got into an argument that almost lead to a fight. While the gang were debating about robbing Old Blums, Old Doc was listening to their conversation. Doc with the fear of the gang robbing him told them to leave.

Analysis
Richard wright wrote this chapter to compare and contrast of Black boy robbery their community and the white community. And also to show the world that cops in the 1930's don't care so much about black on black crime, but they do care about black on white crime.