Hunger In An Open Heart

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In “An Open Heart” The Author illustrates a picture of her past and how the young man has a past to show that everyone needs help, or charity. “I felt more and more isolated, excluded, set apart.”(2), “the pain of hunger is intensified when you live in the midst of plenty.”(2), “I felt a deep abiding hunger for more than food”(2) in the first and beginning of the second paragraph the author describes her own story and uses illustrative words to show a young girl who feels all alone, ashamed and exiled for her absence of wealth. this is meant to set up the stage for how charity affects her life and how it can help another. then the story changes tone when her life is affected by a strangers charity. “I’m 45 years old, and I remember them well.”(2)

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