The people did not have enough food or hardly any to feed themselves and their children. ... Dickens further compares their situation as "a scavenger in the street"; showing how their desperation bears parallels to what animals may experience by calling it a "scavenger"; they were trying to get anything they can get their hands on - for survival.Throughout this passage, Dickens truly describes the deprivation of food and drink the people are in, by explaining that "there was no drainage to carry off the wine" however, "not only did it all get taken up, but s...

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