Have you ever been hungry? That is my question to everyone and anyone it is probably the worst feeling that anyone could ever have in the world. And luckily if you haven't then Richard Wright wrote a novel and in that novel there are detailed feels and mixed emotions of what it feels like to have real hunger that you live with everyday of your life and you can not control. Richard Wright wrote a novel called “Black Boy” about Richard a young boy that is just starting to realize what world he has been living in and what he is living in that moment. It is wonderful to read this novel and see how this child that knows absolutely nothing about his own society get to be one of many young people that have tried to change that. In his novel …show more content…
The following will be example but also evidence of his work as a writer. A hyperbole is an exaggeration or overstatement. Mr.Wright uses hyperbole's in his novel “hunger nudging my ribs” this is a great hyperbole because to us if we go through hunger we would not describe it as he has, he describes it as if hunger was a thing and it was nudging his ribs. Just imagine the pain that Richard was feeling at the moment. It also continues saying “twisting my empty guts until they ached” again Mr.Wright is not only exaggerating but he is using multiple figurative languages in just one statement, you can say it is personification because he is acting as if hunger were alive and actually doing these things to him. Again probably to me this was exaggeration but to Richard this was very painful. Using the same quotes from the text …show more content…
An example i have of this is when he says “ now i began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at me gauntly” there he is using personification by giving hunger the characteristics of walking and also that hunger can see . And when he does this, immediately to our heads we say he is trying to say that now his hunger is not only during the day but it also haunts him at night. This is my favorite quote that he has and it is a diction, words or vocabulary that the author uses, so he says “ “mama i'm hungry,” i complained one afternoon. “ jump up and catch a kungry.” she said.” I like that Mr.Wright uses a saying that was used before to get his point through. It was fascinating to read this excerpt because there is a saying in Spanish that means the same thing so the saying is if a child goes up to the mother and says “i'm hungry” then the mother will respond with “eat your biggest finger” and of course in Spanish it rhymes and it sounds funny. But to Richard that was not a funny joke. And lastly Mr.Wright uses parallelism in his novel and parallelism means a repetition of words, phrases or sentences. He repeats the word hunger about 8 times which is great to let the reader know and understand what he is talking about, which is
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It not only describes the literal hunger that Wright experiences throughout his life due to his poverty, but also his innate cravings for something more than the life he has. In the beginning of the book, after his father leaves the family without a way of supporting itself, Wright says he would, “find hunger standing at [his] bedside table, staring at [him] gauntly,” (Wright 14). This is representative of how his physical hunger was uncomfortable, but also, considering the title, foreshadows how constantly prominent Wright’s desire to find freedom will be. Later in life, because he is naturally inclined to attempt to read and learn, Wright feels as though his desire really sets him apart from other black people and it would be impossible to find a community among white people at this time in the South. Wright’s, “reading had created a vast sense of distance between [him] and the world in which [he] lived and tried to make a living, and that sense of distance was increasing each day,” (Wright 253). So Wright is alienated from most, if not all, of his potential peers, putting him in a unique, independent mindset for most of his early life which will ultimately shape him in the future. This makes him deeply introspective as well as less open and more clumsy when it comes to close relationships as he’s never been able to find someone with the same hunger as him, and he constantly has to watch who he reveals his hobbies to in case they react negatively to a black boy pursuing things like reading and writing. It is in this way that the title American Hunger gives a deeper look into Richard Wright’s
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A historical speech by Elie Wiesel in which he accepted his Nobel Peace Prize, and a fictional story that takes place during WWII, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne both describe a peaceful look to conflict. Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech scrutinizes the acts of peace and rights activist Elie Wiesel and his motives. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a story during the Holocaust of a boy that is the son of a Nazi that is friends with a Jewish boy. Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and many peace activists in history show that the best way to respond to conflict is a peaceful manner.
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Alice Walker’s illustration of an oppressed black woman in a racist society is remarkably vivid and powerful. Through the use of several literary devices and a first-person point of view, Walker gave the novel a realistic yet impactful effect. She applies her tone as an author and uses symbolism to convey a profound message to the readers.
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