Hungry????

Richard is a very complex person, you never know what he is going to do next.  He sets the house on fire and even kills a kitten.  And why does he do these things?  Maybe it is because he is lonely or because he doesn’t feel close to his family.  But what we know for sure is that he is hungry for attention.  His family doesn’t give him the attention that he needs, so he does these bad things in order for people to pay attention to him.  This behavior can be very destructive in the future because what if he starts to do drugs or commit crimes just to get attention.  Richard likes to get all of this attention but once he gets it he doesn’t know what to do with it.  Like when he sets the house on fire he thought that this would give him some attention from his parents but instead he almost gets beaten to death by his mom.  He also kills a kitten out of anger to his dad. His dad told Richard to kill the cat, but not to literally kill it, but to shut it up.  And since Richard wants all of this attention he killed the cat.  He didn’t get in trouble but his punishment was to bury the cat and pray for it with his mother.  Even though Richard is strange in many ways, he is still a kid like every other kid in the world who is just curious about life.