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The Hunger Games
Children killing children on television for the entertainment of the powerful. Collins made it addictive and never let you forget it is horrifying.
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Katniss of District Twelve
Suzanne Collins's 2008 novel is set in Panem, a post-apocalyptic North America where the Capitol keeps its twelve districts obedient by forcing each one to send two children annually to compete in a televised fight to the death. When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen volunteers to replace her twelve-year-old sister Prim, she enters the arena with everything to lose and very little reason to trust anyone. The novel is a critique of reality television, spectacle, and state violence wrapped in a propulsive survival story. It spawned a trilogy and four films grossing over $2.9 billion worldwide.


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Reading The Hunger Games
4 Dread
3 Learning
3 Strategic
5 Survival
4 Hope
5 Defiance

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I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.


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Collins said she came up with the idea while channel-surfing and flipping between footage of the Iraq War and reality television competition shows. The juxtaposition struck her as something she needed to explore.
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Collins based the structure partly on the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur and the Roman gladiatorial games. She wanted to write a story where the spectacle of violence was examined rather than simply consumed.


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