Teacher Model:
Richard Wright, the author or “Hunger,” uses tone and
conflict to convey the theme of children entering adulthood at an age much
younger than expected. Wright changes the tone of how the mom talks to
the narrator. At first, the mom talks to the boy like a mother, like a
mother talks to a child. For example, the mother uses the word “Kungry”
as a ploy to help her kid forgot how hungry he is. But after the mother
gets a job and the hunger only goes away a little bit, the mother’s tone
changes from a mother talking to a child to a mother talking to a young adult
(or even an adult). For example, she says, “If you come back into the
house without those groceries, I’ll whip you.” The tone conveys the theme
because how people talk to each other is determined by the age of the people
involved in the conversation. A mother would not talk to her eight year
old boy in the manner in which the narrator’s mother talks to him. The
sweetness, the gentleness of the early conversation should remain, but by
changing the tone, the author conveys that the child has moved in adulthood
whether he is ready and of age or not.
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