It had been painful to sit and watch my mother crying and my father laughing and I was glad when we were outside in the sunny streets. Back at home my mother wept again and talk…

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It had been painful to sit and watch my mother crying and my father laughing and I was glad when we were outside in the sunny streets. Back at home my mother wept again and talked complainingly about the unfairness of the judge who had accepted my father’s word. After the court scene, I tried to forget my father; I did not hate him; I simply did not want to think of him. Often when we were hungry my mother would beg me to go to my father’s job and ask him for a dollar, a dime, a nickel . . . But I would never consent to go. I did not want to see him.

—Black Boy, Richard Wright

Which statement best summarizes Wright’s childhood attitude toward his father?

He wanted his father to be punished.

He wanted his father to support the family.

He wanted his father to return home.

He wanted his father out of his life.