The first thing that I thought after completing the first chapter was “wow” I can’t believe what this man when through. Richard’s story in the first chapter had already grabbed me by the arm and taken me in to see what else was going to happen in his life. I think that Richard at this point in the book is a boy that only knows what he is told and is very stubborn. …showed first 75 words of 810 total…

…showed last 75 words of 810 total…I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at me bedside, staring at me gauntly.” This quote is said by Richard when he is starting to feel hunger and his father has just left the family, it is important because this event of his father makes the family have not enough money and forces Ella to make some major decisions such as moving the boys to an orphanage.