Hunger for Attention!!

In the book, Black Boy by Richard Wright the main character is Richard. He is a young black boy who has hunger for attention. He loves attention and he loves it so much he does bad things to get some of the attention. The first thing that he does badly is when his grandma was sick, and everybody was paying attention to her. He decided to turn the house on fire so he would get attention. Then he kills a kitten because his dad told him to. His dad did say kill that kitten, but he meant like shut up the kitten. That is what he did to get attention and more. When he went to the saloon, he then started to drink and tell the women there what the man had said. He liked doing this because he got attention and money. He then writes bad things with soap on his neighbor’s windows. This is what he did to get attention; I do not think any of us is different from him we all do dumb and bad things to get people to notice us. We have all done something to gain attention am I right or am I wrong?