A 10 year old kid recently ran away from an orphanage home suddenly finds his father and it changes his life .

A 10 year old kid ran away from a hell like orphanage , with no other way left around starts living with a drug peddler at a slum who claims to be his father which leads him into the vicious web of smugglers and criminals , from where no come back is possible . Will he ever be able to escape ? Does he have a better future ?

But how does it change his life forever? "Change forever" is a something of a clich?. Running away from an orphanage by itself would change his life forever, might it not? So now he meets a man who claims to be his father: how does that "change his life forever" versus the "change his life forever" of running away from the orphanage?

What is the specific course of his life -- aka: the plot -- that is a consequence of meeting the putative father?

But how does it change his life forever? "Change forever" is a something of a clich?. Running away from an orphanage by itself would change his life forever, might it not? So now he meets a man who claims to be his father: how does that "change his life forever" versus the "change his life forever" of running away from the orphanage?

What is the specific course of his life -- aka: the plot -- that is a consequence of meeting the putative father?

Hey outlawdl and Nir Shelter please have a look:
A 10 year old kid recently ran away from an orphanage home suddenly finds a man who claims to be his father and this changes his life for ever .

Now going to rewrite it .

Also why did he run away now and not a year ago or a year from now? What is the inciting incident? Why was the inciting incident significant to the boy?

Hope this helps.