So began Roxane’s relationship with eating to excess. Roxane’s hidden shame deepened exponentially after being betrayed by Christopher, and after the gang rape and violence that was done to her, but that she returned to Christopher after the rape, broke her. She struggles throughout the book with the reality of having put up with it (p. I had no reason to have such low self-esteem at twelve years old” (p. She writes of her relationship with Christopher, “In truth, he treated me terribly and I thought I should be grateful that he bothered to treat me terribly, that he bothered with a girl like me at all. Roxanne Gay’s Hunger is a memoir about shame: how that shame manifests and perpetuates when buried, and how, under the right conditions, one may find healing when that shame is unearthed.Īs early as age 12, though she had loving and nurturing parents, Roxane experienced some level of shame before the rape. Please make it like these other two students have done. Here are students replies please write about what the reading of “Hunger” made you feel and create discussion.
Your posts should be 300 words minimum and should close-read a passage (or passages) from the memoir and from a theoretical essay (or essays) begin to “put them in conversation” as you did for your Short Analysis Essay.
You’ll also find that your classmates’ ideas and interpretations can serve as catalysts for your own analysis later in your own Body Stories. In your posts (due by Monday at midnight), you may find that you raise more questions than you answer in these posts. Use this Discussion Board to work through thoughts, reactions, and questions in informal, low-stakes writing as you read Hunger. I’m trying to learn for my Philosophy class and I’m stuck.