Objects & Places from Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

Gay, Roxane
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 123 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Objects & Places from Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

Gay, Roxane
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 123 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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Fat

The writer, Roxane Gay, is morbidly obese and this serves as both a form of protection for her - a barrier against suffering future trauma and a way of alienating people - and also as a source of great pain because of how the world judges her for it.

The Midwest

This is where the author was born and raised. She has referred to this area as her home even though she has lived in mostly other rural areas for the 12 years preceding the writing of Hunger.

Books

Gay loved reading as a child and found solace in reading following her rape at age 12. She particularly cites The Girls of Canby Hall, the Sweet Valley High series, and the Little House on the Prairie as favorites.

The Cabin in the Woods

Gay was gang raped at age 12 in in this location near her suburban home.

Food

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