Hunger played a big role in Richard Wrights life When a person thinks about hunger food comes to mind We never think of hunger as anything else In Black Boy written by Richard Wright a young boy faces many different types of hunger He wanted to be able to do what the white children did He wanted to be able to go to school to learn to read have friends have a job But because he was an African American he could not This is what I will be discussing in this paper his many different types of hunger