Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
The skin becoming black like an oven is the bodily effect of terrible famine. The darkening describes how extreme hunger and deprivation mark the body outwardly. Black therefore functions as a symbol of famine and its wasting consequences.
The skin becoming black like an oven is the bodily effect of terrible famine. The darkening describes how extreme hunger and deprivation mark the body outwardly. Black therefore functions as a symbol of famine and its wasting consequences.