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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
family. But on his first job everything goes wrong and he ends up
murdering the family’s daughter. Through this novel Bigger meets
many other people, which have the same oppression as him but handle
it in different ways. Some of these people include his mother, his
girlfriend, and Max his lawyer. All of these people have a certain
amount of oppression given to them by the outside world. The only
difference is the way each one of them handle it.

Ever since Bigger was a little boy he has felt very oppressed by the world because he was......

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