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Richard Wright's Hunger In The Black Society

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African Americans had a miserable living condition. Wright and his family moved to West Helena where they rented an apartment: “The neighborhood swarmed with rats, cats, dogs , fortunes-tellers,cripples, blind men, whores, salesman, rent collectors, and children”(59). Sometimes Wright go hungry and begged for food: “But this new hunger baffled me, scared me, made me angry and insistent”(14). Hunger in the black society kept wright for finding his existence. Also, Wright is thought to hate Jews in his black society. In his society, he is taught by the black people to hate Jews because they killed Jesus. “All of us black people who lived in the neighborhood hated Jews, not because they exploited us, but because we had been taught at home and
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