Hunger, the word that is thrown around so often that it lost it's true meaning. Today's middle class citizens can't really relate to true physical hunger. Hunger for most of us is when there is nothing that we like to eat around the house and so skip a meal or two. This can't even compare to the days that Richard endures without food. Physical hunger is not the only hunger that Richard experience in his life. Richard suffers from emotional and educational hungers as well. He seeks association with others and simple books to read. Both of which are things that most people take for granted. This autobiography, Black Boy, by Richard Wright manifests what it is like to desire simple things.
From a very early age and for all his life afterwards, Richard experiences physical hunger. "Hunger stole upon me slowly that at first I was not aware of what hunger really meant.
The Hunger (Seven Day Jesus album)
Hunger Pains
English: Richard Noble on Hunger Strike in West Ho...Hunger had always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at me gauntly" (16). After the disappearance of Richard's father, he began to notice constant starvation. This often reappears in his life. The type of hunger that Richard describes is worse than one who has not experienced real hunger can even imagine. "Once again I knew hunger, biting hunger, hunger that made my body aimlessly restless, hunger that kept me on edge, that made my temper flare, hunger that made hate leap out of my heart like the dart of a serpent's tongue, hunger that created in me odd cravings" (119). This is because hunger has always been a part of Richard's lifestyle, he can't even imagine eating meat every day. This simple thing would...