Read the excerpt from Richard Wright's Black Boy. Hunger stole upon me so slowly that at first I was not aware of what hunger really meant. Hunger had always been more
or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at
me gauntly. The hunger I had known before this had been no grim, hostile stranger; it had been a normal hunger that
had made me beg constantly for bread, and when I ate a crust or two I was satisfied. But this new hunger baffled me,
scared me, and made me angry and insistent. Whenever I begged for food now my mother would pour me a cup of tea
which would still the clamor in my stomach for a moment or two; but a little later I would feel hunger nudging my ribs,
twisting my empty guts till they ached. I would grow dizzy and my vision would dim. I became less active in my play, and
for the first time in my life I had to pause and think of what was happening to me.
Which best describes why Wright includes this anecdote?
O to show how poverty shaped his behavior when he was younger
O to vividly depict the hardships caused by oppression and segregation
O to realistically portray the struggles he endured as a child
O to provide an accurate account of the injustices he experienced as a youth