A Movable Feast by Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway addresses the theme of hunger throughout A Movable Feast by exploring and describing the different types of hunger he felt . He wants to explore this theme in the passage where he walks with Hadley, and they stop to eat at Michaud's restaurant. Through repetition and the use of unconventional details and words, Hemingway shows that he has more than one type of hunger and must differentiate between them. Hemingway strives to say that hunger is a deep feeling within someone, which changes depending on the situation and varies in intensity and meaning. In order to emphasize the different types of hunger he feels, Hemingway uses repetition. He uses this process often, as the word “hunger” appears frequently throughout the passage. Hemingway uses the word to emphasize the meaning of some different meanings and let the reader use the syntax to understand the correct meaning. He used the phrase “I knew I was hungry in a simple way” to let the reader know that he was hungry only because he had not eaten (Hemingway 57). He had no hunger for life or art; he just needed food to satisfy his craving. Hemingway describes hunger as simple because its meaning is the denotative form of the word. Other types of hunger are sometimes difficult to decipher. When Hemingway asked Hadley if he was really hungry, Hadley replied, “There are so many kinds of hunger. In the spring there are more, but it's over now. Memory is hunger” (Hemingway 57). When Hemingway asked Hadley to describe and define his hunger, the word is repeated in unconventional contexts. Hadley shares Hemingway's view that there are different types of hunger and explains that spring brings the one he feels as a writer. In spring, nature begins to bloom and the weather begins to warm up; it is prime material for Hemingway to write about. He also repeated this word in other parts of the novel when he wrote, “Hunger is healthy, and pictures are more beautiful when one is hungry” (Hemingway 72). Many people would never imagine that hunger is healthy, but Hemingway used this to play with the denotative form of the word. In this sentence he uses a sort of oxymoron to explore the contrast between literally being hungry and the writer's hunger he feels..