... presented in these works, but also hunger to escape from the pain of reality, hunger for love and care, and hunger to be accepted and have a sense of belonging. In Dave Pelzer's A Child Called It, Dave Eggers' A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, James McBride's Color of Water and Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, these four men seem to perfectly portray hunger on several different levels. I know that ... to understand that a human being as well as an animal will do anything to go on, to endure - it is a natural instinct. Some people escape from what's holding them back in order to ...

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