Richard was always a rebel, from his boyhood to his older teenage years. Richard's grandmother was always excessively beating him. From the beginning, Richard would not subdue below the white man himself like the other black people around him did. The white people around him knew that he was different from other black men. They were scared because he challenged the system that they had created for themselves as the s

Richard himself alienates himself away from his surroundings. He is always asking himself questions trying to find a way out of his situation. He asks himself why white people are out to destroy him, why does he have fear of whites, why can't he just leave? Richard asks himself these questions even though he knows that there "are no answers" to hopeless questions. Richard tries to distance himself from his environment because there are no answers in his present situation, and he won't find those answer until later in life.

Richard's relatives never understood Richard and because of this he was alienated from his family and his own people. Shorty is the young black boy who gets beat by the white people and jokes about it. Richard hates Shorty because he accepts what Richard finds so disgusting. Richar

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Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)