"Says he wasn’ hungry, or he jus’ et. Give me the food. Now he’s too weak. Can’t hardly move."
– John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 30. When the Joads seek shelter in a barn from the heavy rains, a boy there pleads for food for his starving father. The selfless father had given the last of his food to his young son, the boy tells them.