Character Tracer: Hunger

Richard Wright

Richard is a young boy that lives in Memphis, Tennessee. He lives in an apartment with his mother and brother. His mother and his father had fought and then his father left them. They have little to no food and money and his mother works as a cook. Richard doesn’t like his father because the texts says that whenever he thinks of him he associates his father with bitterness. I know Richard is young because his mother explain very simple things to him that he doesn’t understand and he asks about a lot of things. He always asks ”Why?” and wants his mother to explain. Richard is very brave when he trusts his mother and goes back outside to fight the gang. The texts doesn’t describe how he looks but he might be black since the book is called ”Black boy” and Richard is the main character in the book.