Hunger

Richard Wright is physically and emotionally hungry in this book. Physically hungry because his family is so poor they can’t afford to buy food. But when Wright talks about his hunger in the first chapter, he is associating hunger with his father leaving him. His father was the provider for his family, and now that he has left, his mother has to get a job of her own. Wright resents his dad and has constant hunger because of it.

I’m really interesting in find out what exactly Wright is hungry for. He seems to be hungry for attention and to be noticed, but I think there is something more to that.