Wright's hunger

Wright is a child that is dealing with the struggles that life in poverty will give you. Moving to Memphis after burning down his own house made life even worse for Wright. His dad had a night job and could barely make enough money to support his family. Then, Wright’s father walked out on his family. His mother was left to take care of his brother and him with no job. She does find work, but it doesn’t pay much and the children begin to starve. The main reason for Richard’s hunger is the poverty inflicted on him by racism he lives in. Richard’s mother cooks for a white family. He goes with her sometimes and he becomes angry because the food she is preparing can not be eaten by him. Wright doesn’t quite understand the differences in whites and blacks yet, but he is on his way to comprehending them. Until this point he has not seen why people cared about skin color, and how it changes things when different races are involved with eachother.