Question

why did the boys get voracious and wild​

Answer 1

Answer:

Boys have generally excellent appetites. Oliver Twist and his companions suffered the tortures of slow starvation for three months: at last they got so voracious and wild with hunger that one boy, who was tall for his age, and hadn't been used to that sort of thing (for his father had kept a small cookshop), hinted darkly to his companions that unless he had another basin of gruel per diem, he might some night happen to eat the boy who slept next to him, who happened to be a weakly youth of tender age.