Oppression (Native Son)

Oppression In the novel Native Son written by Richard Wright a young adult named Bigger Thomas goes through a metamorphosis, from sanity to insanity. He starts out a normal trouble youth, living in a run down housing project, where all he does is hang out with his gang. But the city relief program gives him an opportunity to work and make something of himself. All he has to do is chauffeur for a very rich …

…is to not let yourself be oppressed but to let your light shine. Also if someone tries to blow out your light relight it till it is lite eternally. Bigger, Bessie, and Bigger’s mother all fell and let their light be burnt out by society. But when Max came in he showed the readers and the characters in the book that there is a way to let yourself shine in a very oppressive world