Friday, December 18, 2009

Boo's thoughts on Hungry

List down all the issues that it deals with:

- People often start to appreciate something only when it is gone
- We always forget to look at the simplest meaning of things.
- People turn to death as an escape.
- We want knowledge more than wisdom in this generation.

Main issue for Muichoo:

- She thought that death is an escape but came to realize that it just reminds her more of her baby. She was very scared of her unpredictable future, that's why she killed herself. After dying, she regrets of her death and treats Baby very well to compensate her guilt. This links to people trying to compensate even though it's too late? (got an expression problem here)

Linkage with other characters:

-What's similar is that we used death as an escape only to learn that it opens us to our problems. We face our problems directly cause' there's no other way to escape from it. Example, for Sarah, she has to face the fact that "Books are useless for the most important answers" and for Gek, "It's the stupidest thing you can do, killing yourself."

Unifying theme:

- People often start to appreciate something only when it is gone
All of us started to regret killing ourselves after we're dead. We all wanted to live again. Even after trying many ways to convince ourselves that death is alright, we all end up appreciating life more. For Muichoo, she appreciated her body ("But once I got meat. Very nice meat.") and her baby as she takes care of Baby in her death.

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