Book the First: Chapter 5-6, SQUID

"The mill which had worked them down, was the mill that grinds young people old; the children had ancient faces and grave voices; and upon them, and upon the grown faces and ploughed into every furrow of age and coming up afresh, was the sign, Hunger. It was prevalent everywhere. Hunger was pushed out of the tall houses, in the wretched clothing that hung upon poles and lines; Hinger was patched into them with straw and rag and wood and paper; Hunger was repeated in every fragment of the small modicum of firewood that the man sawed off; Hunger stared down from the smokeless chimneys, and stared up from the filthy street that had no offal, among its refuse, of anything to eat. Hunger was the inscription on the baker's shelves, written in every small loaf of his scanty stock of bad bread; at the sausage-shop, in every dead-dog preparation that was offered for sale. Hunger rattled its dry bones among the roasting chestnuts in the turned cylinder; Hunger was shred into atomies in every farthing porringer of husky chips of potato, fried with some reluctant drops of oil." Book 1, Chapter 5, Pages 32-33

Dickens paints a masterful picture of an awful time as he shares the strife and hardship of pre-revolutionary France. He describes the effects of hunger found in everything from the weathered young to the lifeless stoves (smokeless chimneys). Even the once considered inedible parts of livestock (offal) ordinarily found on the streets along with the other trash was no where to be found. Dickens shows the lifeless streets and the awful food to emphasize the coming winds of change, as no one would subject themselves these terrible conditions as it is our nature to always want more.