When Richard talks about his hunger in this chapter he is talking about how whenever he is hungry he thinks about his father leaving his family. When his father left they did not have the money for the food, so he and his family were hungry a lot. His father was the provider for the family. So now that his father is gone, he has a constant hunger and resents his dad. That feeling of hunger will probably stick with him the rest of his life, because he is never going to forget that his father ran out on his family. He is also in a way hungry for attention.
I think this book has been really interesting so far, and I'm excited to read more of it. I think Richard is a very interesting character, he is a little weird and in the first chapter I really hated what he did to the cat. I had to skip over the paragraph with the details of killing it.
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Kendal--
I think it's really sad that he has to feel hungry all the time. It probably has to do with his father leaving his family and how their financial aspect of life struggled. I think that his desire for attention is bigger than his physical hunger, because if he were to have a loving family and supportive neighbors, then coping hunger would have been so much easier to dealt with.
I just think it's very unfortunate!
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