Thhalia Apple Thesis

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g Hungry is the most natural thing in the world” - H.A Swain. Food waste and overpopulation caused the society to suffer. The solution to ending world hunger is taking the element of being hungry away from humankind.

In the novel Hungry by H.A Swain, Thalia Apple is a hacker who is ignorant yet intelligent 17-year-old girl who lives in an Inner Loop. This novel is set in the future because of the technological advancements that have been created.

Along with her family, friends, and everyone that lives in the inner loop, they all take medication that they drink every day to keep themselves from being hungry. This medication provides all the nutrients that food would normally provide. Thalia discovers her stomach starts growling. To avoid this she starts taking her medicine regularly as she used to skip some days but she comes to the conclusion that she was hungry. She continues to fight the system by not following the rules and living like her grandma when she was younger and faced hunger. Thalia’s parents (mom is a scientist and dad is an engineer) who help work in the company that creates these medications strongly believed that the only solution of world hunger was not being hungry at all. In result Thalia secretly learns from her grandma what it was like to eat food. Thalia soon joins a cult where she meets a guy that goes by the name of Basil. Basil is from the Outer loop and he becomes Thalia’s lover. In the outer loop people still felt hungry and they wanted food back. …show more content…

As a result, he gets arrested for using the machine so Thalia and he both flee the scene and they both become the most wanted people in the loop. This is when Thalia soon finds out the truth about her parent's works. Thalia’s mom puts her into a rehab after she notices the strange behavior from her. Basil with the help of another helps Thalia breakout and arrive at a world where food still

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