All 4 Uses
aspiration
in
Native Son
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- Dimly, he felt that there should be one direction in which he and all other black people could go whole-heartedly" that there should be a way in which gnawing hunger and restless aspiration could be fused" that there should be a manner of acting that caught the mind and body in certainty and faith.†
Book 2 *aspiration = desire
- There was something he knew and something he felt" something the world gave him and something he himself had" something spread out in front of him and something spread out in back" and never in all his life, with this black skin of his had the two worlds, thought and feeling, will and mind, aspiration and satisfaction, been together" never had he felt a sense of wholeness.†
Book 2
- Your Honor, injustice blots out one form of life, but another grows up in its place with its own rights, needs, and aspirations.†
Book 3aspirations = desires
- Who knows when some slight shock, disturbing the delicate balance between social order and thirsty aspiration, shall send the skyscrapers in our cities toppling?†
Book 3aspiration = desire
Definitions:
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(1)
(aspiration) a desire to achieve something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)