The book is about a black boy. His name is Richard and lives with his grandmother. One day when Richard was home he makes a fire he burned the house to the ground, his grandmother die but he survives. He moves away with his mother, brother and father to Mississippi where the father moves again. Richard goes to the school but the other boy was not nice to him. They were very poor and it was hard to find some money to buy some food. Richard was good in the school and started in 5th grade. His mom helps him to read. One day was he so good that he could may a speech and the speech was going into Negros Newspaper but his mom find out that it was a lie and it was not true was he had read. His mom was not so proud when she fined out that it was a lie.
One day get Richard a job with a clothes shop but after a little time he ran away op north where he think that he maybe could reads some book and maybe he will be a writher.
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It is a hard life for a black because there are very much racisms and where Richard live it is very very hard because there not are many black people in Mississippi.
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