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Significance of Opening Scene: The coming of age of Richard is shown through
his family’s move to Memphis. Going into this new city introduced him to
gangs, drunks, bars, school, and hunger. The significance of the first scene is
that it shows the early childhood of Richard and how he had to learn the hard way
about a lot of things. One of the things that would have the biggest impact
on him, and continue to for the rest of his life, was when his father left
their family. It left so many questions marks in his life at such a young age,
that it left an imprint on him forever. Living in the environment he did, Richard
learned about things that most learn about much later in their lives.

Significance of Closing Scene: The point of the closing scene of Part 1 is to
show that Richard was finally on his way to his dream of moving to Chicago.
He worked hard for money to provide his family with for almost his entire life,
and finally it was his turn to do somet...