Yes, to starve. They feed you in Hell, but when you escape from it you starve. They were hunting me everywhere and I had no passport, no name,
(a) Who is the speaker? Who are ‘they’?
(b) What is the mental state of the speaker in the above extract?
© What is meant by the word ‘starve’?
(a) The speaker is the convict who has escaped from prison. ‘They’ are the police and the jailers.
(b) The mental state of the speaker in the above extract is one of desperation.
© It means ‘to die of hunger’.