book project

Ben Taylor
Hunger RTL

In the documentary, Hunger by Sherman Apt Russell she tells how hunger has affected the world and how it is still affecting the world. In this book the author uses a number of examples to show how hunger has affected the world. Some of the examples include, Gandhi and his hunger protests where he protested by starving himself. Another example is when a few men, instead of going to war (WWII) volunteered to starve themselves so the soldiers would know how to feed the starving people at the concentration camps without making them sick or die. The theme of this book is, teaching you the dangers of starving, this is important because it tells you what happens to your body when you starve.
In this book Sherman Apt Russell uses many different mini-stories to (Gandhi) develop the theme. One of the stories is between the years 1869 and 1948 when Gandhi starved himself in protest to get things he wanted for himself or his people. Another story in this book is when a number of men in the WWII era (early 1940's) volunteered to starve themselves so the soldiers would know how to reefed the starving people in the concentration camps without making them sick or die all of the men lived however, many of them went crazy and changed there majors to food and read cook books. Another story in this book is about the potato famine. During the potato famine in 1846, a large crop (60%-75%) of potatoes was contaminated the potatoes turned into a smelly mush. Many people died because; in Ireland the potato was a large part of their diet.
I can connect to this book because while I was reading this book it made me think about how hunger can affect the body and the mind. It affects the body because after so long the body eventually eats it’s self. It affects the mind because food suddenly becomes the center of attention and that’s all you can focus on.
This book is very believable because it is all true facts. All the characters were real people and they all showed the theme because all the people she wrote about were starving. In all the examples I gave above, the people were real and the people were starve and dieing.