In the Goblin Market, the word ‘hungry’ is first used when the text says “Who knows upon what soil they fed their hungry thirsty roots?”. The word hungry can be, “characterized by a strong desire or craving, (such as) eager; greedy; avaricious.” (EOD.com) The word hungry is well described throughout the text by the mental representations it gives of temptation. Hungry can be used to describe the girl’s wonder and lust for the Goblin men while they are spying at them through the brush. Their hunger is also what drives Laura to be unable to resist her desires for the men’s fruit. It is this hunger that she fulfills when she spends her night with the goblin and by gorging herself with the men’s fruits. It is obvious that the extreme cravings Laura is experiencing is caused by sexual tensions when they describe the fruits as beings “Succus” which, when defined by EOD.com, means, “ A fluid, such as gastric juice or vegetable juice, contained in or secreted by living tissue or any of several liquids of the body.” This hunger or craving is the same thing that causes Laura’s fall. She was a pure, innocent girl who fell to her temptations with the Goblin men. When she returned, she still had a lingering desire, or hunger for the men’s fruits. This craving is what left her starving and unsatisfied after she could no longer fill her hunger again. A hunger that can no longer be fulfilled, would leave a person hungry, and in the extreme sense starving. This is what happens to Laura after her night with the Goblin men when she returns home. She will no longer eat and she begins to dwindle away as her hair turns gray with a craving that will not reside. In turn, the word hungry can essentially describe the entire text by using the definition of one word.
