This kind of question is the type that feeds my aversion to literary analysis. Wright is hungry, because he has no food. I'm just too cynical to really get into this. But whatevs, here it goes.
I think that Wright is hungry because he wants more out of everything in life. At a young age, he seems to always be in trouble. This is because he's always out looking for new things to do, rather than just laying back and letting his situation control what he does. Instead he chooses to leave the house, and find entertainment for himself. He taught himself to read, and learned how to count. He wanted more. He wasn't content with waiting for school to start, or just sitting around. He was hungry for knowledge (gag) and decided to do it himself. When he goes to the orphanage, he's hungry for change, so he runs away. Richard shows in this chapter that he is not going to just let life get him down, he's going to look for ways to change it and get where he wants to be. Wright wants to live differently, to have food like the whites do, to forget his father who signifies hunger to him. He's hungry for change.
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Aly Hughes,
I agree that Wright is hungry because he is wanting more out of his life. During the book, he mentions hunger when he wants change from the situation he is in. When he is in the orphanage, the hunger comes back, and he attempts to escape to feed that hunger, but he fails while trying to do so. Nice blog!!!
ERIN
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