Wright's Hunger

In chapter one Wright tells many memories he's had. Wright seems like he was a wierd kid from the things he did. He burned a house down, hung a cat, and got drunk when he was still little. He also tells of the hunger he began to feel during his childhood. Wrights father leaves the family, and then Wright starts to get this feeling of hunger. He is hungry for actual food at first. Without his father they don't have enough money to eat healthily so he becomes hungry. He doesn't realize he is also "hungry" for his father until his mother tells him why his father left the family. Wright is making a connection with hunger and loneliness. Hunger is our feeling of wanting food. Wright wants his father and I believe is lonely without him. I think wright uses hunger because it is an unpleasant and sometimes painful feeling, which helps describe the feeling he had for his father.