... people and treat them as if they were animals. As soon as something else comes along we forget that person even existed. "A Hunger Artist," by Franz Kafka, and "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings," by Gabriel Garcia Marquez follows the same theme of alienation, neglect and dehumanization to those who are deemed different ... . In "A Hunger Artist," Kafka expresses the unique aspects of the hunger artist as well as the alienation he faces. The hunger artist is able to fast for long periods of ... He begins to feel as if his so-called fans hate him. His impresario cuts his act after forty ...

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