Black Boy by Richard Wright-Hunger Essay

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 …

…or educational hunger that Richard suffers through it has affected him greatly. However, his strong and determined characteristics lead Richard Wright's Black Boy to succeeds. Now, as an adult living in the North, he has passed these obstacles and is now stronger than ever. The main reason he survive is because of his great endurance. Today, only a few of the people that lived in our society would be able to survive through such hungers.