Hungry

    Hunger. What is Hunger? Wikipedia defines it as a sensation experienced when one feels the physiological need to eat food.

Many of us know hunger like this. But that isn't what everything it stand for. Jeanette Walls exposes us to different hungers. She talks about longing for better life and stability."In less than three months, I'm leaving for New York City" (Walls 238). Her father is an hopeless drunk and her mother is too naive to do anything about it. Jeanette wants to go to New York leaving her parents behind to improve her living conditions. We all can relate to her because we all have yearned for improvements over our lives. Also, Jeanette dated this man named Eric. He is the stability she needs because "he was decent and responsible, never gambled or lost his temper, and always paid his bills on time" (Walls 268). Her dating Eric symbolizes her need for security in life that her alcoholic father could never give her. Just like Jeannette, we all want something. These desires could be from being President, or getting that very sought after A. Ultimately, our hunger is not just in a form of the need to eat food but it is everything that we lust for.