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 best describes Wright’s point of view in this passage?

third person: a child describing his memories of his parents

first person: a child describing his feelings about his father

third person: an adult reflecting on his childhood

first person: an adult describing memories of his mother