"Hunger stole upon me so slowly that at first I was not awsare of what hunger really meant. Hunger had always been more or less at my elbow when I played but now I began to wake up at night fto find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at me gauntly." Richard grew up relizing something you and I will never quite understand. You and I know of hunger, he knows hunger. he knows hunger so well, so personally he can stare it straight in the eye. This is shown many times throughtout Black Boy by Richard Wright. Wright makes it clear that Richard suffers through starvation throughout his childhood Wright expresses hunger byt talking about how Richard is hungry physically, how being hungery phyicaly effects him mentally, how richard is not only hungry for food, but is hungry for education, he also expresses how Richard is hungry...