Black Boy Ninth Response

The last paragraph of chapter 14 ended on a very different tone. It ended with Richard realizing the terrible things that he was about to get away from, the sheer terror that Richard felt was completely understandable, when someone tells you,
"I'll never leave this goddamn south, I'm always saying I am, but I won't... I'm lazy. I like to sleep too goddamn much. I'll die here. Or maybe they'll kill me."
what else would you think but, "Kill you!?!" But the terror is something that Richard has lived with his whole life, and now he is finally about to escape it. Before he goes, he takes a look at what would of happened if he stayed, and that terror he felt at that moment was more horrifying then anything he had ever experienced.