All of them were hungry, many were starving. Generally, far fewer people are starving, than are malnourished. Soup kitchens and charity groups made brave attempts to feed the many starving and destitute. Meanwhile, hundreds, if not thousands of poverty stricken refugees were starving to death every day. The famine spread to Shaoshan, where starving peasants seized his father's grain. Exhausted, starving, and sensing danger ahead, Buck refuses to continue. Sarah, starving and desperate, kills Tom. Think about people that are starving to death and think about that show. Athens by now was starving, and grain was at famine levels in price. He is unable to locate her amongst the thousands of starving people in Paris. You're starving, hallucinating, running into strange creatures. They then resorted to starving Derry out. The proportion of starving people has decreased even faster. At the time, people were starving and they banded together to commit robbery. They too, were starving and wanted to return to their villages.