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Skribentens beskrivelse af Referat Black boyRichards’s mother came to the orphan home and told Richard that they were going to live with ant Maggie in Arkansas and on the way they should visit Granny. At Granny’s house Richard meet a young school teacher, her name was Ella. She was always reading books. Richard wanted to know what the books were about and she told him. After they had stayed at Granny’s house some time, they went down to the railroad to take the train to Arkansas. Richard asked his mom why black and white people were in different parts of the train, but she just got very angry at him for asking. When they arrived in Arkansas Maggie was at the station waiting on them. Maggie lived in a house with a fence around with her husband Hoskins. Hoskins owned a saloon. Richard lived well in Arkansas; he got the food he needed. But one day Hoskins was shoot down, and they had to run away or they would be killed to. They found out it was some white guys that shoot him down. They moved to west Helena where Richard began at school again. But it didn’t go that well on the first school day. He couldn’t write his own name on the blackboard. When the day was over and he came out from the school he heard that the war was over. He also saw a plane in the sky he thought was a bird. Years passed and Richard grew taller and stronger. Richards’s mom got very ill, and it was up to Richard to make the money to live for, so he did a lot of small jobs. One day his mother got a stroke, Richard and his brother called the neighbours that called the doctor. The doctor told them that she couldn’t eat and had to stay in bed. Richard got worried and wrote a letter to Granny asking for help. Days after all the uncles and aunts came to help Richard and his brother. The uncles agreed to take the Richard and his brother away. Richards’s brother was sent to Detroit, and Richard himself was sent to Greenwood. Richard lived very well in Greenwood, but one day a man told him that in his room a boy had died. After that Richard wouldn’t stay there anymore so he was sent back home to his mother. Richard found out back home that his mother had it a lot better then before, she just needed an |