The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins
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Re: The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins
Interestingly, I just recently watched the movie with my husband and independently of me mentioning any opinions about the book or the film he commented that it was getting a bit limp. We still enjoyed it though, but I did keep interrupting the movie to try and find comparisons to Battle Royale.
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I think your friend's probably right - futuristic. It's our world but what it might be like in the future rather than anything unrealistic.rachel5 wrote:I have a question. What reading genre would The Hunger Games be classified under? At first I thought paranormal, but I normally associate vampires with paranormal, and there are no vampires in the Hunger Games. Then I thought sci fi, but the books don't really have a space and planets type setting. One of my friends says futuristic. Does anyone know? I'm been so curious about that
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I don't know if I could have coped without Katniss. I was so invested in her that I don't think I would have been able to keep reading. Also, the whole Peeta/Katniss love story was what kept me reading.SaraKat_Johnson wrote:I think it would be interesting if Katniss died in the first book (or even the second really). I'd be just as interested in how the resistance and uprisings progress without her. What would Gale or Peeta do and her sister. I would've loved for Prim to live. Anyone else have anything they would hypothetically like to happen?
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Has anyone read or see Battle Royale? It was a Japanese story and it's very similar to Hunger Games in a lot of ways. If you enjoyed Hunger games you should give it a go. It's a little more brutal but still interesting.
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I'd say it's a futuristic dystopia.rachel5 wrote:I have a question. What reading genre would The Hunger Games be classified under? At first I thought paranormal, but I normally associate vampires with paranormal, and there are no vampires in the Hunger Games. Then I thought sci fi, but the books don't really have a space and planets type setting. One of my friends says futuristic. Does anyone know? I'm been so curious about that
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I really enjoyed the trilogy, and I wouldn't have liked to see Katniss die in the first book because I actually really like her. Yeah the ending seemed a bit off and sudden, but to be honest it was a pretty realistic depiction of what could have possibly happened many years after the revolution and stuff. As a whole I seriously liked this trilogy though, it kept me reading and I really do have a soft spot for Katniss still, hah.
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I found this:
A significant influence would have to be the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. The
myth tells how in punishment for past deeds, Athens periodically had to send seven youths
and seven maidens to Crete, where they were thrown in the Labyrinth and devoured by the
monstrous Minotaur.
Even as a kid, I could appreciate how ruthless this was. Crete was sending a very clear
message: “Mess with us and we’ll do something worse than kill you. We’ll kill your children.”
And the thing is, it was allowed; the parents sat by powerless to stop it. Theseus, who was the
son of the king, volunteered to go. I guess in her own way, Katniss is a futuristic Theseus.
In keeping with the classical roots, I send my tributes into an updated version of the Roman
gladiator games, which entails a ruthless government forcing people to fight to the death as
popular entertainment. The world of Panem, particularly the Capitol, is loaded with Roman
references. Panem itself comes from the expression “Panem et Circenses” which translates
into “Bread and Circuses.”
The audiences for both the Roman games and reality TV are almost characters in themselves.
They can respond with great enthusiasm or play a role in your elimination.
I was channel surfing between reality TV programming and actual war coverage when
Katniss’s story came to me. One night I’m sitting there flipping around and on one channel
there’s a group of young people competing for, I don’t know, money maybe? And on the next,
there’s a group of young people fighting an actual war. And I was tired, and the lines began to
blur in this very unsettling way, and I thought of this story
http://www.hungergames.com
interview with S. Collins
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