*Black Boy Essay: Oppression Growing up as a Negro in the South in the early 1900's is not that easy, some people suffer different forms of oppression. In this case, it happens in the autobiography called Black Boy written by Richard Wright. The novel is set in the early part of the 1900's, somewhere in Deep South. Richard Wright, who is the main character, is also the protagonist. The antagonist is no one person specifically, …showed first 75 words of 1042 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1042 total…not be able to rise to the top. In "Black Boy," Richard Wright did just the opposite. Another universal theme is that if you believe that you can achieve in anything, most likely you will achieve in many things in life. In the novel at first, Richard did not believe he could do anything to improve his life. These are the themes in the novel Black Boy that can be used for everyday life, universally.