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"Hunger" by Gabriela Lee, Portrayal of hunger as emotional and…

- - - - religious
        
        condemned as a "sin"
        
        "God's punishment for premarital sex"
      - cultural
        
        conservative philippine values
        
        said to invoke "bad karma," "malas"
      - Limited Access
        
        abortion is illegal and unregulated
        
        available through (typically unsafe) black market clinics
        
        "clandestine methods"
        
        Health Risks
        
        2 in 3 women experience medical complications following unsafe practices
    - - rooted in
        
        economic struggle
        
        single status
        
        maternal age
        
        lack of contraceptives
- - - - 'Comforting'
        
        There is comfort in knowing that others go through the same struggle - Stella
      - "Impending doom" - Stella
        
        Abortion is sanctioned by societal norms - Stella
        
        Women have to undergo unsafe illegal alternatives
        
        They are forced to go through a preordained experience of trauma and grief
- - - - Duality as a bloodthirsty killer vs human woman
        
        Segmentation of the body (lower half = "life-giving" & reproductive vs upper half = "life-taking" or fetus-killing) portrays struggle between reproductive and maternal decisions
- - - - "Bloodthirsty" manananggal portrays hunger for independence and connection
    - - Conditions women to believe that abortion is immoral, pushes them to unsafe and illegal procedures
- - - - longing for
        
        acceptance
        
        identity
        
        love
        
        purpose
      - embodiment of manananggal in Philippine folklore
        
        ability to split itself
        
        duality of the manananggal
        
        torn between different identities and desires
        
        insatiable appetite for prey
        
        thirst for new experiences and relationships
        
        consumed by
        
        desires
        
        shaping one's identity and choices
        
        relationships
        
        societal expectations
    - - exploration of one's identity and relationships
        
        stages of
        
        physical development
        
        mental development
        
        emotional development
      - embodiment of manananggal in Philippine folklore
        
        physical hunger
        
        feed on fetuses of pregnant women
        
        desire for food and lust
        
        emotional hunger
        
        yearning to find others regarding one's own kind
        
        longing to seek connections
        
        mental hunger
        
        ability to divide one's body to two parts
        
        internal struggles faced
    - - desire to do new explorations
      - crave for something liberating
      - embodiment of manananggal in Philippine folklore
        
        addicting satisfaction
        
        “you are feeding more often now”
        
        once one starts to indulge in it, it becomes a lifestyle
        
        “when you were just starting out and you were unaccustomed”
        
        thirst of manananggal
        
        uncontrollable adolescent hunger