
This was my first year going to the hunger banquet, and it was totally not what I had expected it to be. There were many negatives and positives. After entering in with your ticket, each person had to draw out of a bucket a piece of paper which said if you were upper class, middle class, or lower class and then you had to sit according to what you were drawn. upper class had tables that were a lot nicer, the middle class had tables with chairs to sit, and lower class had to sit on the floor. upper class had a full nutritious meal, middle class had rice and beans, and lower class had rice and water. there were 2 student speakers and one adult speaker. All of them basically explained how there is enough food to feed every man woman and child in the world but we just do not resource it and handle it wisely. We act like we are scarse on food, when we have more then enough for no one to starve. I learned a lot on other peoples perspectives about the issue of starvation and hunger in the world. It was interesting being segragted according to your class. I was placed in the middle class, so my dinner was just rice and beans. Which at the end I was starving and had to go get more food somewhere else. If anyone else attended the hunger banquet say which class you got placed in and what you learned...

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I didnt go to the hunger banquet but i am curious to know what the meal for the upper class was. was it something other than lots of rice and beans? Did it have meat of some kind? It sounds interesting.
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