4 questions: "The Night I Won to the Streets of Memphis"

The 4 Questions:

1) What factor would you change if Richard was replaced with your child instead?
2) How is Richard's mother similar to the gang that kept attacking Richard?
3) Which events could have happened after Richard got done with the bullies with the stick?
4) What questions would you ask Richard's mother for the reason of her approach?

The 4 Answers to the 4 Questions:

1) If Richard was really my child, I would have taken a different direction of handling the problem. First of all, I would have just taken up the role again as getting food like usual. Before deciding that i would give my child the role as to getting the groceries, I would see if they were really up to it. If they could actually handle it. If your child gotten beat up two times in the same time period, then you know basically that it's just not their time to grown-up and take charge of the situation. Unquestionably, Richard was not old enough to defend himself, so I would have found another way of handling the problem.

2) Richard's mother and the gang on the street are similar in one way. First, there was a matter of who you can hit and take your revenge out on completely. When the gang kept beating up on Richard, he wasn't aware that he could hit back. Richard's mother clearly just slapped him and he knew that he couldn't hit back. When given permission to go fight the gang, that's just what Richard - he enjoyed it too. Richard wouldn't had done the same to his mother because of her role in his life. Besides she was trying to help - a harsh way that is. Clearly, Richard knew who to hit and who not to hit on and fight back.

3) After fighting the gang with a stick, he could have got into so much trouble with the streets. First, a whole group of other people that were for the gang, could have came after him for revenge for what he did. Richard could have just be walking down the street bothering no one, and out of no where a group of older kids just jumps him for thinking of the past. The streets wouldn't be safe for a ten years old boy no more. In conclusion, if the problem was handled in a totally different way then maybe he wouldn't fear for his life every time he steps a foot out the front door.

4) If the chance for a actual question could be asked towards Richard's mother about the way she approach the problem, it should be asked then. First of all, there may have been other ways of handling the situation other then handing your child a stick to go fight with. Why was this decision chosen first? Richard could have killed them or injured them just to get his point across but the mother would have to understand that that's someone else child. Beating them to death should not have been the first option of solving the problem. All in all, what the mother did shouldn't have been her solution for her son to take on about the gangs on the street. So what was her reason for doing so?