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The Hunger

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The Hunger	comment	The Hunger is a 2018 Historical Fiction/supernatural horror novel written by Alma Katsu. It is a fictionalized retelling of the travails of the infamous Donner Party on their doomed trek westward.Ever since they left Independence, Missouri, things have been going wrong for the Donner Party. Their wagons keep breaking down, most of their livestock has died or been stolen, their supplies are running low, and the party's members can barely stand each other. But that's only the beginning of their troubles. The party is following the advice of Lansford Hastings, a self-aggrandizing adventurer who claims to have found a shortcut through the rugged Wasatch Range. It soon turns out that his shortcut is no such thing, and the party realizes that they will be forced to endure winter in the forbidding Sierra Nevada Mountains. Worse, it gradually becomes clear that someone or something is stalking the party, slowly infecting them with a strange ailment that eventually drives them mad with a craving for raw, fresh meat...Not to be confused with Tony Scott's first movie, or the Whitley Strieber novel that inspired it.
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The Hunger / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
The Hunger / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: Margaret Reed is stated to be older than her husband James, who is 45. In reality, she was 32 when the Donner Party set out from Independence.
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The Hunger / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
The Hunger / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: Keseberg sexually abuses several of the younger girls in the party, then attempts to rape Elitha Donner. Elitha's Love Interest Thomas intervenes on her behalf and is shot and killed for his trouble.
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The Hunger / int_13d6db18	type	One Last Smoke
The Hunger / int_13d6db18	comment	One Last Smoke: Stanton rolls a cigarette full of good Virginia tobacco and smokes it before he kills himself.
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The Hunger / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Hunger / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Mary Graves lapses into one after Stanton shoots himself. Her sister has to baby her along to keep her from simply collapsing into the snow and letting herself die.
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The Hunger / int_1b8c7503	type	The Exile
The Hunger / int_1b8c7503	comment	The Exile: James Reed is booted out of the party after murdering John Snyder, which everyone believes is a death sentence. He survives, though, thanks to his daughter secretly bringing him supplies. The Donners themselves are exiled from the group later on, since everyone has lost confidence in George Donner’s leadership and believes that Tamsen is a witch.
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The Hunger / int_1c7555f1	type	The Virus
The Hunger / int_1c7555f1	comment	The Virus: The na’it disease works like this. Transmitted via bite or consumption of infected meat, it slowly takes over its victims, turning them into cannibalistic savages.
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The Hunger / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
The Hunger / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: Tamsen becomes jealous of Mary Graves after she realizes that Charles Stanton has fallen for the younger woman.
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The Hunger / int_1dc5730a	type	CharacterTic
The Hunger / int_1dc5730a	comment	Character Tic: Reed wipes his hands and forehead with his handkerchief when he’s upset or distressed. The narration specifically notes that his hair is thinning because he does it so often.
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The Hunger / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
The Hunger / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Franklin Graves threatens to expose Stanton’s past if he continues to speak to Mary, and it’s clear he’s doing this out of concern for his daughter’s well-being, even if he is being a prick about it.
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The Hunger / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
The Hunger / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: George Donner gets his hand crushed by the family’s prairie schooner while trying to repair a broken axle. Tamsen’s narration describes the result as a “paddle of pulpy, mashed flesh.”
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The Hunger / int_1fd2efc9	type	Byronic Hero
The Hunger / int_1fd2efc9	comment	Byronic Hero: Charles Stanton is a classical example: handsome, intelligent, emotionally conflicted, brooding and jaded, and has a Dark and Troubled Past to top it all off.
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The Hunger / int_21889507	type	A House Divided
The Hunger / int_21889507	comment	A House Divided: The party is often its own worst enemy. As their situation deteriorates, mistrust, factionalism, and paranoia all contribute to pulling them apart.
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The Hunger / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
The Hunger / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: Aside from those in the Donner Party who turn to cannibalism, the na’it are people afflicted with an insatiable craving for human flesh. They are revealed to have originated with Reiner Keseberg, who happily indulged his cannibalistic cravings and spread the disease.
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The Hunger / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Hunger / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Tamsen Donner's derringer. It first shows up when Lewis Keseberg attempts to murder Stanton, using the derringer to implicate Tamsen. Stanton keeps it and later uses it to commit suicide after being bitten and infected by one of the na'it.
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The Hunger / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The Hunger / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Stanton. As the rest of the wagon train slowly turns on each other, he remains laser-focused on survival and on keeping the peace as best he can, knowing that if the party falls apart, they’re doomed.
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The Hunger / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
The Hunger / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Charles Stanton dealt one to Herbert Knox when the older man taunted him about Lydia's death. The narration specifically notes that Stanton would have killed Knox if the latter’s servants hadn’t intervened.
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The Hunger / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
The Hunger / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Multiple times. Several children die in the course of the novel, which is, sadly, a historical fact.
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The Hunger / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
The Hunger / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: To Dan Simmons’ 2006 novel The Terror. Both books are a fictionalized retelling of a historical event in which a pioneering group of people became trapped in a remote and inhospitable location by the onset of a brutal winter and resorted to cannibalism to survive. Both books also add a supernatural element in the form of hostile, monstrous beings with a taste for human flesh who stalk and torment the trapped groups. To extend the comparison, the Donner Party and the Franklin Expedition even occurred at the same time; the party became trapped in the Sierra Nevadas in the winter of 1846, just after the expedition’s ships were first frozen in off King William Island in the Arctic.
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The Hunger / int_2cac89cf	type	The Ingenue
The Hunger / int_2cac89cf	comment	The Ingenue: Mary Graves is presented as an innocent and naive young woman. Tamsen Donner resents her for it.
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The Hunger / int_2d363f63	type	Frame-Up
The Hunger / int_2d363f63	comment	Frame-Up: At one point, Lewis Keseberg tries to murder Charles Stanton and attempts to implicate Tamsen Donner by using her derringer.
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The Hunger / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
The Hunger / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Keseberg, of all people, is given a new dimension in the last third of the book. It’s revealed that he is afflicted with the na’it disease, it being some kind of family curse he brought with him from Germany. Despite his thuggery, perverse behavior, and general unpleasantness, he has spent his adult life resisting the urge to eat people. He even abandoned his father to rot in jail and rejected his uncle’s offer of partnership because both of them happily indulged their cravings. When he realizes that he is the only one who can fight the na’it without succumbing to the disease, he assumes the role of protector for the remaining members of the party, appeasing the monsters with offerings of flesh from the party’s dead and fighting them off when they try to attack.
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The Hunger / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Hunger / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Lewis Keseberg is a bastard, but even he balks at eating people. This is all the more notable because he’s afflicted with a disease that makes him crave human flesh.
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The Hunger / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Hunger / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Real Life party member Jean-Baptiste Trudeau is removed from Katsu's version of the Donner Party and replaced with an original character named Thomas.
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The Hunger / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Hunger / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Keseberg doesn’t just kick Luke Halloran’s dog, he shoots it. He also abandons an elderly member of the party to die by the side of the trail and routinely beats his wife.
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The Hunger / int_3a7266d3	type	Must Not Die a Virgin
The Hunger / int_3a7266d3	comment	Must Not Die a Virgin: Elitha Donner sleeps with Thomas, on whom she has a massive crush, apparently because of this trope.
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The Hunger / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The Hunger / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: For anyone who knows the story of the Donner Party, the deaths that occur will not be a surprise.
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The Hunger / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
The Hunger / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: This seems to be an underlying theme in the book: when the chips are down, people will turn on each other with little to no provocation. The only main characters to escape the trope are Charles Stanton, Mary Graves, and Edwin Bryant. Granted, this does have some basis in historical fact. In real life, the Donner Party was often riven by internal dissent and factionalism during their westward trek, which contributed to their troubles during the winter.
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The Hunger / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Hunger / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: As in real life, many of the main characters are dead, including Charles Stanton and Tamsen Donner, but James Reed survives and is reunited with his family. Mary Graves lives as well.
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The Hunger / int_441bd048	type	Patient Zero
The Hunger / int_441bd048	comment	Patient Zero: Keseberg’s uncle Reiner turns out to have been the origin of the na’it; he brought his curse with him from Germany and passed it on to some prospectors he met up with in the mountains six years before the party set out. It is now spreading through the Native tribes in the region, as well as the Donner Party.
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The Hunger / int_466ccbb4	type	Gayngst
The Hunger / int_466ccbb4	comment	Gayngst: James Reed suffers from it in spades.
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The Hunger / int_468105b5	type	Bring Help Back
The Hunger / int_468105b5	comment	Bring Help Back: At one point, Stanton rides out to buy supplies for the rest of the party when they're in desperate straits. After the party gets snowed into the Sierra Nevadas, a team consisting of Stanton, Mary Graves, and a few others attempt to hike out of the mountains to bring help. James Reed returns to the party after having been exiled, bringing help with him.
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The Hunger / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
The Hunger / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Lewis Keseberg, naturally. He sexually abuses several preteen girls, attempts to rape Elitha Donner, and tries to murder Thomas when he intervenes.
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The Hunger / int_4c8e8078	type	All of the Other Reindeer
The Hunger / int_4c8e8078	comment	All of the Other Reindeer: Everyone in the party assumes that Tamsen Donner is a witch, due to her extensive knowledge of herbalism and her reputation as The Vamp. She's (barely) tolerated at first thanks to her husband's popularity, but as George Donner starts to lose his grip, and after she kills Luke Halloran in self-defense, everyone in the party ostracizes her.
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The Hunger / int_4d8ff0c	type	Snowed-In
The Hunger / int_4d8ff0c	comment	Snowed-In: The party becomes trapped in the Sierra Nevadas by the onset of winter. They're forced to bunker down as best they can.
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The Hunger / int_50ca4422	type	Unresolved Sexual Tension
The Hunger / int_50ca4422	comment	Unresolved Sexual Tension: Between Stanton and Mary Graves. They don't even get so much as a kiss before Stanton kills himself to avoid becoming a na'it.
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The Hunger / int_52196c03	type	Age-Gap Romance
The Hunger / int_52196c03	comment	Age-Gap Romance: Most of the couples in the wagon train have significant age differences, as was the norm at the time. George Donner is 60, and his wife Tamsen is 44. Charles Stanton is 35, and Mary Graves is 20. Lavinah Murphy’s two oldest daughters are teenagers married to men in their thirties.
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The Hunger / int_55180ce	type	Snow Means Death
The Hunger / int_55180ce	comment	Snow Means Death: The onset of winter spells doom for the Donner Party, and many characters die in the snow, including Charles Stanton, Thomas, Franklin Graves, and Tamsen Donner.
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The Hunger / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
The Hunger / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: The novel keeps the basic structure and timeline of the Donner Party, but takes artistic license with just about everything else. According to the afterword and a blog post on the author's website, this was done in order to create a more interesting story for the reader. Most notably, Real Life party member Jean-Baptiste Trudeau disappears completely, replaced by an original character. Katsu also creates a fictional Native tribe, the Anawai, in order not to smear the historical Washoe and Paiute tribes.
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The Hunger / int_5f97d951	type	The First Cut Is the Deepest
The Hunger / int_5f97d951	comment	The First Cut Is the Deepest: Stanton's heart was shattered by the death of his childhood sweetheart, Lydia Knox, specifically by the fact that she rejected his proposal of marriage and committed suicide in front of him after revealing that she had been raped and impregnated by her father. His budding romance with Mary Graves is haunted by his grief and regret over this tragedy.
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The Hunger / int_606244c2	type	Parental Incest
The Hunger / int_606244c2	comment	Parental Incest: Lydia Knox, Charles Stanton’s childhood sweetheart, was a victim of her father’s perverse desires.
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The Hunger / int_619985d7	type	Sacrificial Lion
The Hunger / int_619985d7	comment	Sacrificial Lion: Stanton. Though his death was a Foregone Conclusion, it also serves to illustrate the dire situation the party is trapped in.
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The Hunger / int_63575aae	type	Smitten Teenage Girl
The Hunger / int_63575aae	comment	Smitten Teenage Girl: Mary Graves, who is just out of her teens, falls hard for Charles Stanton. Similarly, thirteen-year-old Elitha Donner falls in love with Thomas, an original character who takes the place of actual party member Jean-Baptiste Trudeau.
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The Hunger / int_663b22d9	type	Dying as Yourself
The Hunger / int_663b22d9	comment	Dying as Yourself: Stanton kills himself to keep from becoming a na’it.
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The Hunger / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Hunger / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Several characters either attempt or commit it, including Elitha Donner, Lydia Knox, and Charles Stanton.
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The Hunger / int_6d89ad1a	type	The Ophelia
The Hunger / int_6d89ad1a	comment	The Ophelia: Elitha Donner, who often wanders around the party's encampments while having animated conversations with thin air (she's actually talking to the disembodied voices in her head). Since no one else can hear these voices, she naturally comes across as mentally unwell.
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The Hunger / int_6fb5cb83	type	I Gave My Word
The Hunger / int_6fb5cb83	comment	I Gave My Word: Stanton swore to Lydia Knox that he would never reveal the truth of her child’s paternity to anyone, and he has kept his word despite the damage it’s done to his reputation and mental health.
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The Hunger / int_735dd172	type	Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl
The Hunger / int_735dd172	comment	Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Stanton and Mary Graves. He's a jaded, self-hating older man who keeps to himself and is regarded as an outsider by the rest of the party. She's a kind, sweet-spirited young woman who falls hard for Stanton and slowly begins to draw him out of his shell.
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The Hunger / int_75750b9a	type	The Savage Indian
The Hunger / int_75750b9a	comment	The Savage Indian: Invoked and averted. The main Native character, Thomas, has received a Western education and is wiser than his youth would suggest, fully averting the trope. In spite of this, the white settlers in the Donner Party dismiss his tales of the na'it as superstitious nonsense. The trope is also invoked when they lose some of their livestock to the Paiute, as occurred in real life. The Washoe tribe are perfectly friendly, however, and some of them save Edwin Bryant's life and provide him with a horse and supplies so he can return to settled territory. The one tribe that indulges in savage stereotypes, such as Human Sacrifice, is fictional.
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The Hunger / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
The Hunger / int_771f6307	comment	Brother–Sister Incest: Downplayed. Tamsen Donner apparently fell in love with her brother Jory when she was younger, though she never told him.
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The Hunger / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
The Hunger / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: The party slogs through the Wasatch Mountains and across the Great Salt Desert, losing people, livestock, and equipment along the way. They're running out of food, nobody trusts anybody else, and they still have hundreds of miles to go before they reach California. Then they realize that they're going to be trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountains as winter sets in. Then they find out that someone, or something, is stalking them through the wilderness.
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The Hunger / int_7b71737e	type	Closet Gay
The Hunger / int_7b71737e	comment	Closet Gay: James Reed, who winds up killing John Snyder rather than let the man reveal that they’ve been having sex.
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The Hunger / int_7cf2f728	type	Boomerang Bigot
The Hunger / int_7cf2f728	comment	Boomerang Bigot: John Snyder, who has been having sex with James Reed, refers to Reed as a “fucking faggot” when the latter tries to break things off.
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The Hunger / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
The Hunger / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: Tamsen and George Donner, and Jacob and Doris Wolfinger. Lavinah Murphy apparently arranged matches for her daughters. Mary Graves was set for such a marriage, but her fiance died in a hunting accident.
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The Hunger / int_80ef74c3	type	Fictionalized Death Account
The Hunger / int_80ef74c3	comment	Fictionalized Death Account: Everyone who dies in the novel dies roughly when they're supposed to according to the historical timeline, but due to the addition of the na'it and other subplots, some of the deaths do not match historical fact. For example, Luke Halloran died of tuberculosis, not being stabbed in self-defense while turning into a wendigo-like monstrosity, and Charles Stanton simply sat down and froze or starved to death, rather than shooting himself. Tamsen Donner allows Lewis Keseberg to kill her and use her body to feed her children; the actual circumstances of her death remain a mystery.
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The Hunger / int_83a8d697	type	Oblivious Guilt Slinging
The Hunger / int_83a8d697	comment	Oblivious Guilt Slinging: At one point, George Donner gets drunk and tells Stanton about Tamsen's past affairs. He then states that he knows she's cheating on him with another man in the wagon train, and vows to kill whoever it is. As Stanton happens to be that man, he feels deeply guilty about the whole thing.
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The Hunger / int_849d24d9	type	Last Kiss
The Hunger / int_849d24d9	comment	Last Kiss: Bitterly subverted. As he is preparing to kill himself after being infected with the na'it disease, Stanton desperately wants to kiss Mary Graves goodbye. He holds himself back because he can already feel the craving for human flesh overtaking him, and he doesn't want to risk hurting her.
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The Hunger / int_85ca9dab	type	Second Love
The Hunger / int_85ca9dab	comment	Second Love: Mary Graves for Charles Stanton. Sadly, it doesn't end well.
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The Hunger / int_8bd2ee20	type	Native Guide
The Hunger / int_8bd2ee20	comment	Native Guide: Edwin Bryant hires Thomas to serve as his guide, though the kid freaks out when he hears the na'it nearby and bolts. This means that the party is disinclined to listen to his warnings when he joins them later on.
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The Hunger / int_8d0461e2	type	Destructive Romance
The Hunger / int_8d0461e2	comment	Destructive Romance: Stanton and Tamsen’s brief affair comes across as this, as does Tamsen’s own relationship with her husband. James Reed’s affairs with his clerk and John Snyder also have elements of the trope.
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The Hunger / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
The Hunger / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Charles Stanton briefly finds himself caught between the sweet, innocent Mary Graves (Betty), and the seductive, experienced Tamsen Donner (Veronica). He winds up ditching Tamsen in favor of Mary, though he doesn’t think he’s good enough for her.
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The Hunger / int_958d9c62	type	Short Cuts Make Long Delays
The Hunger / int_958d9c62	comment	Short Cuts Make Long Delays: As in real life, this is what dooms the Donner Party. They follow the advice of Lansford Hastings, an "explorer" who, when he wrote his guidebook to California and Oregon, had never actually traveled the entirety of the route he was recommending to other immigrants. This "shortcut" was actually 150 miles longer than the standard route. As a result, the party loses a month of valuable time struggling through the Wasatch Range and across the Great Salt Desert, and they are trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountains by the onset of winter.
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The Hunger / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
The Hunger / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: At the end of the book, Keseberg tries this on Tamsen Donner, telling her that they are both people who know what they want and will do anything to get it. Tamsen rejects the comparison in disgust and tells Keseberg she’ll prove it by letting him kill her to use as food for the rest of the party.
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The Hunger / int_9858c391	type	Chick Magnet
The Hunger / int_9858c391	comment	Chick Magnet: Stanton. Tamsen Donner, Mary Graves, and several other women in the party are taken with him, and he has had several affairs in his past.
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The Hunger / int_9a5ae2a2	type	More Teeth than the Osmond Family
The Hunger / int_9a5ae2a2	comment	More Teeth than the Osmond Family: The na'it have mouths full of sharp, curving fangs.
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The Hunger / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Hunger / int_9b34ee31	comment	Marriage of Convenience: Half the married couples in the party. Tamsen Donner and Margaret Reed are widows who remarried so they'd have someone to provide for them (and in Margaret's case, for her children).
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The Hunger / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
The Hunger / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Tamsen uses an oil lamp to kill a few na’it early on. Later, fires prove to be the only reliable means of keeping them at bay. The local Native tribes also insist on burning any possible na'it corpses they come across.
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The Hunger / int_a12a5322	type	That Old-Time Prescription
The Hunger / int_a12a5322	comment	That Old-Time Prescription: Tamsen Donner collects herbs, mushrooms, and other flora to make into folk remedies. Though they're generally effective, they also get her branded as a witch.
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The Hunger / int_a16d511d	type	Insecure Love Interest
The Hunger / int_a16d511d	comment	Insecure Love Interest: Charles Stanton doesn't believe that he's good enough for Mary Graves, even as he recognizes his growing feelings for her.
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The Hunger / int_ad22fa80	type	Apocalyptic Log
The Hunger / int_ad22fa80	comment	Apocalyptic Log: Edwin Bryant’s letters to his fiancee serve as this, as he gets lost in the mountains and discovers the origins of the na’it curse. Unlike most examples of the trope, though, he survives his ordeal, thanks to some friendly Washoe.
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The Hunger / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
The Hunger / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: Many of the characters are forced to grapple with this trope. Charles Stanton regards himself as a coward and a weakling, but he rises to the challenges that the party faces and proves himself to be better than he thinks he is. Others don’t meet the challenge quite as well.
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The Hunger / int_b04fdcc4	type	Loners Are Freaks
The Hunger / int_b04fdcc4	comment	Loners Are Freaks: Stanton finds himself isolated and nearly friendless in the party thanks to this trope; people think there's something wrong with a man who's still a bachelor in his mid-thirties, and soon enough rumors about him are swirling throughout the party. This leads to ...
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The Hunger / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
The Hunger / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Tamsen Donner may be happy to run around on her husband, but she’ll be damned if she lets someone as loathsome as Lewis Keseberg lay a hand on her. She is genuinely offended when Stanton insinuates otherwise.
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The Hunger / int_bd0230fb	type	Ambiguously Bi
The Hunger / int_bd0230fb	comment	Ambiguously Bi: James Reed has been married three times and produced several children, but he's also had affairs with two men. It's unclear whether he's actually bisexual or just gay and using his wife as a cover for his orientation.
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The Hunger / int_bead8edd	type	Injun Country
The Hunger / int_bead8edd	comment	Injun Country: Invoked, since the party is traveling through territory inhabited by several Native tribes, including the Paiute, the Washoe, and the (fictional) Anawai.
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The Hunger / int_bef00ce9	type	Whispering Ghosts
The Hunger / int_bef00ce9	comment	Whispering Ghosts: Elitha Donner can hear the voices of the dead, including Luke Halloran and the natives who have been killed by the na’it.
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The Hunger / int_c3648b87	type	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
The Hunger / int_c3648b87	comment	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: George Donner hates James Reed, and the feeling is mutual. Charles Stanton runs afoul of Franklin Graves thanks to Mary Graves' feelings for him, and has problems with most of the other men. Most of the people in the party think that Tamsen is a witch and keep their distance from her, and absolutely nobody likes Lewis Keseberg. Things only get worse after they're stranded in the Sierra Nevadas; open hostility erupts between the largest families, with the other people in the party forced to take sides or left to fend for themselves.
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The Hunger / int_c66cb5a9	type	Human Sacrifice
The Hunger / int_c66cb5a9	comment	Human Sacrifice: One of the Native tribes in the region has taken to worshiping the na’it, offering up sacrifices in an effort to appease their hunger.
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The Hunger / int_c819533b	type	Rage Breaking Point
The Hunger / int_c819533b	comment	Rage-Breaking Point: Stanton hit his years ago, after Herbert Knox drunkenly taunted him about Lydia. He snapped and nearly beat the man to death with his bare hands.
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The Hunger / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
The Hunger / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The na’it curse can be transferred via bites and the consumption of infected flesh, not unlike rabies, but it seems to possess a supernatural component as well, similar to the tales of the Wendigo. In the end, it's unclear whether it is some kind of bizarre communicable disease or an actual curse.
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The Hunger / int_cf168867	type	The Corruption
The Hunger / int_cf168867	comment	The Corruption: The na’it disease at first weakens its victims such that they appear to be suffering from tuberculosis or a similar disease, then imbues them with manic energy before transforming them into animalistic killing machines.
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The Hunger / int_cf7b362	type	Horror Hunger
The Hunger / int_cf7b362	comment	Horror Hunger: The primary trait of the na’it; they manifest a ravenous craving for human flesh.
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The Hunger / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
The Hunger / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: James Reed spends the first half of the novel warning people not to trust Lansford Hastings and to start rationing their supplies. Nobody takes him seriously, since he tends to put on airs and is regarded as effeminate by many of the other men in the party. Some of them even threaten to hang him if he keeps talking about it. He is, of course, correct on both counts, which everyone else only realizes when it's too late. Thomas, the Native teenager who joins the party about halfway through the novel, also warns them repeatedly about the na'it, but is dismissed as an "ignorant savage".
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The Hunger / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
The Hunger / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Lewis Keseberg has become one by the end of the book. Since he's an asymptomatic carrier of the na’it disease, he can’t be infected. He’s therefore assumed the role of protector for the survivors of the party, feeding the na’it bits of the dead and fighting them off when they attack.
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The Hunger / int_d08595d3	type	Broken Bird
The Hunger / int_d08595d3	comment	Broken Bird: Stanton is a male example. He is a withdrawn, deeply lonely man who is riddled with self-loathing and other emotional baggage.
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The Hunger / int_d6b5863	type	Driven to Madness
The Hunger / int_d6b5863	comment	Driven to Madness: Anyone who is infected by the na'it curse begins to slowly go mad.
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The Hunger / int_d791dbbb	type	Cannibal Larder
The Hunger / int_d791dbbb	comment	Cannibal Larder: The party eventually winds up preserving the bodies of their dead in the snow for later consumption. Near the end of the novel, Lewis Keseberg has a flashback to his childhood in Germany, in which he remembers watching his father carve up human corpses in the family’s slaughterhouse.
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The Hunger / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
The Hunger / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: Mary Graves seems to hit hers after Stanton’s suicide. Her sister has to force her to keep walking.
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The Hunger / int_de357f50	type	Loners Will Stay Alone
The Hunger / int_de357f50	comment	Loners Will Stay Alone: Stanton already has no family or close friends in his life, and his habitual aloofness only causes the rest of the party to keep their distance, with the exceptions of Edwin Bryant, Mary Graves, and Tamsen Donner. Stanton seems to believe that this is what he deserves.
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The Hunger / int_deecc9eb	type	Awful Wedded Life
The Hunger / int_deecc9eb	comment	Awful Wedded Life: Tamsen Donner is deeply unhappy in her marriage. It's downplayed with the Reeds. Theirs was a marriage of convenience, and Margaret is implied to be frustrated with her husband's lack of backbone, but she and James still care for each other.
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The Hunger / int_e0904aa4	type	No Party Like a Donner Party
The Hunger / int_e0904aa4	comment	No Party Like a Donner Party: Well, this is a novel about the Trope Namer, so ...
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The Hunger / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
The Hunger / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Tamsen Donner, whatever her faults, is a fiercely protective mother to her children, both her own and the two stepdaughters she inherited when she married George Donner. She goes so far as to allow Keseberg to kill her and use her body to feed them rather than let them starve.
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The Hunger / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
The Hunger / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: The real Lewis Keseberg was something of a prick; he left the elderly Mr. Hardkoop behind to die and was reportedly abusive toward his wife, but there is no evidence that he was anything like the savage, pedophilic thug depicted in the book. To a lesser extent, Jim Bridger also gets this; he is known to have promoted the Hastings Cutoff because it would bring him more business, but the novel strongly implies that he hid Edwin Bryant’s letters advising the Donner Party not to take the cutoff, which was never proven for certain. He is also shown keeping a na’it as some kind of strange pet.
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The Hunger / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
The Hunger / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Edwin Bryant, who keeps chasing Native tales of strange creatures in the mountains even as he gets lost, runs out of food, and loses his horse.
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The Hunger / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
The Hunger / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Lewis Keseberg seems written to be as loathsome as humanly possible. In real life, he was one of the more unsavory members of the Donner Party—he really did leave poor Mr. Hardkoop to die, and his spousal abuse appears to be historical fact as well—but Alma Katsu makes him into a savage, crude, pedophilic asshole.
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The Hunger / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
The Hunger / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Tamsen realizes something is wrong with Luke Halloran when he starts to lash out at her and everyone else in the party, when previously he had been a kind and polite young man who was very appreciative of her ministrations.
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The Hunger / int_eae41a	type	The Vamp
The Hunger / int_eae41a	comment	The Vamp: Tamsen Donner has acquired this reputation, not without reason. She seduces Charles Stanton within the first fifty pages of the novel, and George later drunkenly admits to Stanton that her affairs with other men were part of the reason he decided to move his family west.
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The Hunger / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
The Hunger / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Tamsen puts a knee into Keseberg's family jewels when he grabs her.
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The Hunger / int_ed68bcc9	type	Dwindling Party
The Hunger / int_ed68bcc9	comment	Dwindling Party: As in real life, the Donner Party steadily shrinks on its way west, with people dying from disease, exhaustion, and injury. In this case, they're also being picked off by the na'it.
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The Hunger / int_ef1f9896	type	LostLenore
The Hunger / int_ef1f9896	comment	Lost Lenore: Lydia Knox for Charles Stanton.
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The Hunger / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
The Hunger / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: The na’it are pretty much just wendigos with the serial numbers filed off. Was Once a Man? Check. Afflicted with a bizarre, possibly supernatural craving for human flesh that can never be satisfied? Check. Associated with winter and starvation? Check.
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The Hunger / int_f6972f9d	type	The Mourning After
The Hunger / int_f6972f9d	comment	The Mourning After: Stanton has been in mourning ever since the death of his childhood sweetheart, who killed herself after being raped and impregnated by her father.
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The Hunger / int_f818b637	type	Dude, Where's My Respect?
The Hunger / int_f818b637	comment	Dude, Where's My Respect?: Reed eventually gets fed up with being blamed for the party's misfortunes, especially since he was the one who'd warned against taking the Hastings Cutoff in the first place and had proposed the institution of rationing schemes for their food. Margaret and Stanton call out the rest of the party for their ingratitude.
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The Hunger / int_fdad625e	type	Was Once a Man
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The Hunger / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: Poor Stanton. At first, it’s suggested that he left home because he impregnated his childhood sweetheart, a girl named Lydia Knox, who then committed suicide when he refused to marry her. Later, a flashback reveals the truth: Stanton never slept with Lydia. In fact, he had proposed to her, but she turned him down and revealed that she was pregnant by her father, who had forced her into his bed. She swore a distraught Stanton to secrecy, and later committed suicide because she couldn’t live with the shame. When her father mocked Stanton for his youthful naivete, Stanton snapped and nearly beat the man to death with his bare hands. Mr. Knox gave him a bundle of hush money and told him to get lost. Stanton’s been drifting westward ever since.
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