Using one or more of the theories I will attach, analyze this film to discuss the manner in which it portrays engaging in or punishing crime. As you describe the media text, relay the overall narrative of the text, central characters, and the criminal behavior or how it is punished.
Film: Native Son (1940) is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright. It tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black youth living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago’s South Side in the 1930s. While not apologizing for Bigger’s crimes, Wright portrays a systemic causation behind them. Bigger’s lawyer, Boris Max, makes the case that there is no escape from this destiny for his client or any other black American since they are the necessary product of the society that formed them and told them since birth who exactly they were supposed to be. The movie, A Native Son, can be found here:
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