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The story is about a boy called Richard Wright. He lives with his mother and brother. His father left their family. Richard were hungry and ask if his mother could give him some food. But she told him that they didn’t have any.

He had to whait for his mother to get a job so she could buy the food, it had always been dad who brought the food to them. And with him gone mother couldn’t put food on the table. 

First Richard liked it when dad wasn’t there because he could make how much noise he wanted to. Mom got a job as a cook and left him and his brother i the apartment with some bread and tea. One day Richard went down to buy some food and he saw a gang and they robbed him of his money and he ran home. Once home he said what happend and she gave him money and sent him out again. He saw the same boys and ran home scared. His mom said to go on and not pay any atention to them.

He went out again and tried to not pay any atantion, but they saw him and he ran but they were faster and took his money again.

He came home, crying and mother came with a heavy stick and said go down buy the groceries and if you see those boys agian fight them. So he did what he was told and went out again. The boys saw him and yeld he just stood there and started to cry. when the boys aproached and began to grab him he shouted that he would kill them, he swung the stick in despair and felt it hit a head. The boys were suprised and scatterd and didn’t want to fight with him anymore.

The parents of the boys came out and shouted at them and he would give them the same treatment he did to the boys if they bothered him again.

He bought the groceries and went home with his stick. He survived the streets of Memphis.