Short Story 'Right To The Street Of Memphis'

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A mother should love here child. What can be said about a mothers love when she threatens to wip her child. Is it being curl? Richard writes short story " the right to the street of Memphis" depicte mrs write as strong , caring , wise. Mrs writes remanded strong during an difficult family crisis.

Mrs writes is a strong well kept women. One reason is the she doesn't break down in front of here childed as he stomps around the house and crying he is hungry. She tells here childed where is you father the kid looks around and said I don't see him. As days pass and hungry grow mrs writes says that she needs to find a job and get some food in the house to feed her kid and for herself . The job she find that will pay for a black women is a waitress in a restraint that pays minume Wayne. When her kid crying and saying that he is hungry she doesn't give in she kept telling her child to do a bunch of stuff to do and think about as she realized that her husband had left the family and vanish. She would have cried her self to sleep
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Her job is paying her really well and that she can now afford to put food in the house and keep everyone well feed. One day she sends her child out to get some grosses and with a list. As he walks to the corner store there was a group of older kids that stop him they all teastsd him and took all the money his mother gve him he runs home to tell his mother and she sends him back out to get food. He is arguing to his mother that the kids might jump him again his mother is to demanded him to get the food and she sends him out with a big stick and he can't come back in the house until he brings food home. He walks done the store again and the group of boys are still there they all sorund him and he swings the stick and knocks all of them out he goes and get food and bring it home. What is the life lesson you say is that mothers are not going to protect you your whole

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