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Powerful Images In Richard Wright's Starving Children

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Since the book’s publication in 2004, the above statistics have no doubt changed. Whether they have changed for the worse or the better, I cannot say. However, Wright’s mention of helpless children, and populations whose basic needs are not being met is very effective. Starving children is a powerful image. People dying from water, another powerful image especially when mentioned with specific statistical numbers. The image of the lost farmland, creates a dismal picture of a shrinking earth. The above passage seem to also be calling his audience to action. Any doubts of this, were erased the moment I read the last paragraph. Wright’s conclusion states:
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