I know that we already know that Bigger is a killer, but in this blogpost, I plan to expand on that. I also plan to possibly do an essay on this topic as well. Anyway, Bigger is a killer and he was raised in an environment that only encouraged violence. From the very start of the book, Bigger's thought process can be described as hitting the problem until it goes away.While we aren't given his background in too heavy of detail it is likely due to him being raised in a corrupt city, where the white man controls everything and the only path he knows is the one of violence. Typically, young men that join gangs are stereotyped as being violent and bigger is no exception. This can be seen when his gang plans on robbing a white man, which in itself is an act of violence (kind of). Instead of voicing his displeasure of the thought of robbing a white man, he decides to just beat up his friends instead. I am not psychiatrist by any means, but I feel as thought his environment has some