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By Kelly Bird - September 06, 2004

Essay Prompt:

Writers often highlight the values of a culture or society by using characters who are alienated from that culture or society because of gender, race, class or creed. Discuss Bigger Thomas as such a character and show how his alienation reveals the surrounding society's assumptions and moral values.

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In Richard Wright's…

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