Native Son

 In the middle of Book three, Bigger's lawyer, Max, gave an amazing testimony in support of Bigger. Although the outcome didn't go as planned, Max's testimony shouldn't have warranted Bigger the death penalty. Max's speech was so special because he didn't try to prove that Bigger was innocent, or come up with excuses. He only tried providing the judge and jury with an alternate prespective. He showed how Bigger's actions could've easily been blamed on whites. He explains how Bigger was ignorant. He had never had the opportunity to interact with a white person who didn't hate him. His first encounter with nice white people were the Daltons. Mary went further than her parents, she was consistently trying to treat Bigger normally and he wasn't accustomed to that. He believed she was making fun of him, and not being genuine. Then, once he was in her room and Mrs. Dalton walked in, he knew he would be in trouble so he did the first thing that came to mind in order to not get in trouble. Max described this is such dept that it was almost impossible to not understand. Bigger was still sent to the chair, but this was only because they were meant to fail. Max was a Jewish communist and Bigger was black. These were amongst the most hated groups of the time.