Writing

When Richard is told to pray by his grandmother, he instead decides to write about an Indian girl. Writing gratifies Richard because it is his way of making sense of the world. He created something that is his own, that no can take away, no matter how it was made. He created something that is tangible in the world even if it is nothing, and that is what empowers him in all the meaningless. Even more so, when he goes to show it to the girl next door, she doesn't understand. That affirms his place above someone else and her inability to grasp what he has done makes him gratified. He now has a relationship between writing and expressing himself.