Needing Any Attention Lately?

Within the book "Black Boy" has a lot of controversies dealing with the main character Richard who is a little boy that is talking about him growing up. Richard is ordinarily is craving something all the time and it normally revolves around the hunger. Now he is hungry for the attention that he craves so much as a little boy and it shows when he began to commit those actions he did. When he lit the house on fire, I don't believe that was so much of a cry for attention, it was just for curiosity being a little kid. One day he was in the house bored and then he realized that fire amused him and when it would burn something to tiny little ashes. We all know that when a little gets curious they tend to look into it much more even though it was a horrible thought. He had to learn from trial and error, which he did. Even though it may have caused one big disaster, I don't believe that this one boy was crying for attention. He was just one very curious boy that doesn't mind sticking his nose into something that doesn't need to be investigated by a 4 year old.