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Many young people growing up today in modern America live in a pseudo-realistic existence. They are sheltered from arrays of devices which may hinder upon comfortable expectancies and dull the long term effects of hardship. The inference of “hunger” is evident even in our pampered context, however it holds a much more significant meaning in lives touched by the grim finger of poverty, defeat, and in this case - racial discrimination. For instance, the hunger which manifests in the life of Richard Wright can hardly be deemed routine, but rather slaughtering when compared to the hunger we may think we feel in our day to day lives. In Black Boy, hunger is broken down into three fundamental parts - all of which attack the author either separately, or in brutal symbiosis. The ugly faces of unquenched hanker translate as physical, emotional, and educational hunger. Like a three-headed sea serpent terrorizing a devastated coastal village, Richard’s three headed hunger continuously bludgeoned his own brio while chipping away at his shores to near erosion. First, the essence of physical hunger beats down upon Mr. Wright’s being from a very early age. As noted on page 16, “Hunger stole upon me slowly that at first I was not awa