Hunger. Well, Richard is hungry because his family cannot afford enough food since his dad has left them. Before he can make this connection, he is just always hungry. Once his mother helps him make the connection between hunger and his father leaving, he is Hungry. The hunger that he has now, the Hunger, is not so much for food. Of course he is hungry for food, but he is Hungry to fill the gap in his life because the hunger reminds him of his father, which reminds him of hate.
When his father offers him the nickel, his hunger makes him want to take it, but his Hunger makes him be able to say no. He knows that by accepting this nickel he is allowing his father to believe it was okay to leave the family and not support them financially. The nickel is only a temporary fix. He does not want his father to get away with that. Adult Richard says he knows that the next time he sees his father he will be a poor sharecropper, and then knows that his father’s lack of support comes back to haunt him, and does not get away with it.
Richard’s hunger starts to fade even though he is still physically hungry, because his Hunger, Hunger for anything, grows so much his hungry isn’t so substantial anymore.
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Great post Jordan, I think you nailed this one.
Wright is physically hungry in the beginning because his family has no food. Once his mother talks to him about his father leaving, and that was their only means of getting food, it's like he has a whole in his stomach that can never be filled. Wight associates being hungry with how hard his life has become.
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