Uncle Tom

Richard is mad at Uncle Tom for a multitude of reasons. One of the predominant reasons is the fact that Uncle Tom woke Richard up from sleep just to ask about the time, an illegitimate reason for waking him in Richard’s opinion. Furthering this is the anger of the Uncle when he views Richard’s “approximation” as disobedience. Richard has never responded well to people attempting to beat him for what Richard perceives as bad reasons. He has already had two encounters with his Aunt over these wrongs and the encounter with the uncle is just an extension of this. He is tired of taking wrongful crap, not just from the white people who he knows will give him crap, but from his own family members whom he doesn’t expect to wrong him but are still attempting to do so.