The Oppression In The 1900's Everybody, once or more times in his or her life has been oppressed by others or themselves. Such is the case of Richard Wright in Black Boy, his autobiography. He was born in 1918 at the time of segregation and discrimination. The setting of this novel is in the deep south of Jackson, Mississippi where blacks are abused by whites. The time is 1912, two years before World War I. The mood …showed first 75 words of 1343 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1343 total…others because they have been internalized oppressed by another person. Because they have been oppressed, they want to do the same thing to others. In the same way, whites deliver the same hate to blacks that they themselves receive from society. To Richard, this is a result of naturalism, which means that everybody's behavior is shaped by the society around him or her. It is not their fault, but the environment they grow up in.