This chapter can relate to other things that I have seen on TV. For example on some TV shows African Americans talk about hardships they went through like Richard went through. Examples of this are the families not having enough food and having to send their children away so that they could eat like Richard had to do.

A question that I thought of about half way through the chapter was, why does Richard's mother treat her son like she does? After completing the first chapter I now think that I might know the answer to the question. The first part of the answer is that I think she beats Richard because he has done something wrong and needs to be punished and that was the way she was brought up. But I think she is hard on Richard and pressures him to join church and get involved with the community because she wants to prepare him for the real world. She wants him to be ready for the verbal beatings and the strictness of a white world, and she wants him to get involved with the community so he can use them as a safety net during hard times.

Another character that stood out to me in this first chapter was Richard's mother Ella. Ella is a very strange woman who I do

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