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What does the word hunger mean to Eliezar?

The word hunger takes on a new meaning in chapter 4 of the book.

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I think it comes to mean the passage of time, "I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time."

- Elie Wiesel, Night, Ch. 4