Fear is an emotion that has multiple meanings. Such as the fear of losing an important competition or the fear of being in trouble with your parents because you decided to sneak out of the house. Fear will make you do crazy things that are totally out of your character. Protagonist, Bigger Thomas, let fear control his life from physically fighting his closest friends to committing serious crimes.
Bigger was born into a poor African American family living in a one bedroom apartment with two siblings, Vera and Buddy Thomas, and his mother. Bigger was a child that always stayed in trouble. When a lucky morning came along, he was offered a life changing job with the famous Dalton family. He had a chance to change his life around and help his family or to decline the job and continue to rob the innocent citizens of the Black Belt.
After thinking about it, he decided to go to the interview and take the job. Prior to going to the interview, Bigger decided to go visit his three closest friends at their hang out spot. Smoking cigarettes and playing games of pool, they planned to rob one of the Caucasian owned stores. Bigger knowing the consequences was afraid that the plan would not work and they would get caught. In order to keep from suffering consequences, Bigger decided that he would start a fight with one of his closest friends to cause confusion and mess up the timing of the plan.
Dodging a huge bullet of robbing a Caucasian man, he went to his interview to start his new job. After being interviewed and introduced to the Dalton family, Bigger had to drive the daughter, Mary Dalton, to her university for a college function. Once they were in