Woman Warrior

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needed meat. After she became starving, she breaks down and eats meat. “…I saw the rabbit had sacrificed itself for me. It had made me a gift of meat” (26). Her will was eroded by the hunger because as her hunger increased, she became weaker and her resolve was easier to destroy. When the narrator was not starving she was in control of her faculties. Hunger however, strips her even of vision, as she imagines things that do not exist. The narrator says, “Hunger also changes the world when eating can’t be habit, then neither can seeing. I saw two people made of gold dancing the earth’s axis” (27). Viewing two gold dancers would be wonderful to witness, however the chances are very slim. The hunger had weakened her to the point of confusion, and possibly dilution. Just as hunger weakens a person so they cannot command themselves, eating will make a person powerful and the masters of others.
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