Hunger
Quote #1
"My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you're starving yourself, you can't concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn't eat."
-Tracey Gold
This quotation takes you through all the things that go through the mind of an anorexic teen. It helps you understand how out of control your body really can get. Anorexia isn't just affecting you physically it has a huge impact on you emotionally as well. This quote also is an example of how your life would be if you choose to be hungry rather then happy and healthy.
Quote #2
“When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: "Don't think, don't politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think!”
- Slavoj Žižek
This quote is almost a slam against foundations that help children in developing countries. It is very true though, people donate to say 'I helped feed a child in africa' but really they just send a dollar a day and you don't know where it goes. you don't go and visit the children you help you never physically meet them, but you feel like you have made a huge difference. Don't get me wrong these organisations are saving children who are starving but you don't have to think twice about them. The young children in developing countries cant do anything to save themselves, they didn't ask for this life they were born into it.
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