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…showed last 75 words of 833 total…desperate times that he did anything for money, only to escape the racial South. Richard is put through tough times with his father, mother, and white superiority. He needed a way out of this, which was through books and his hunger for knowledge, but this came at a cost. Blacks in the South were treated poorly, and unfairly by whites which made it very hard for any black to live a normal and nice life.