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…
Mr.Wright uses a lot of figurative language to get multiple things said.
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
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we could also say that it is Imagery. Imagery is words phrases and passages that appeal to one of our 5 senses. And there is another quote from the novel that say “ my vision would dim” his hunger was so powerful and harsh he would lose his vision a little. Metaphor is when there are two unlike things being compared to each other to make the reader more understanding of what the text is saying. Mr.Wright uses metaphors in his writing as well for example he says “ the hunger i had known before this had been no grim, hostile stranger”. Here Mr.Wright uses metaphor to get his point across everyone. And he compares this two very different things he compares hunger as a no grim, hostile stranger, and to me when he says this it comes to my head as if he is comparing hunger that he knew before as someone that was not happy to be there but also something that didn't really do any harm to him. Personification is when something that is not living is given human characteristics and Mr.Wright uses personification multiple times in his novel.
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
hunger. These are only some figurative language words, phrases and sentences that i could find but of course there are many more that Mr.Wright uses in his novel. There is much more to his work then what i could find. Also there is not much in a text the first time you read it but the second, third and even forth time you read something you will find the big picture and the greater value of the text. Now remember any time you are hungry jump up and catch a kungry, i hope it makes you smile or laugh and forget.
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