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“The Hunger Games is a young adult novel”
lol...Why bother?
I’ve read all three book, thought they were riveting, and am dismayed by these articles. I fear that Hollywood is going to try to play up the political angle and will obviously try to turn it into some sort of left-wing parable, but the books (particularly the first one) are simply flat-out action that should ordinarily translate well to the screen. The movie adaptation of the first book should be something like the first Terminator movie or Rambo 2; if there is any political element, we’ve been had.
I read all three. Good read. I have to say that while written for teenage girls in the Twilight tradition, the books are very violent. As in...”I drew my bow and shot an arrow through his heart” . Death comes cheap and human life is expendable. I guess that might be part of the message.
On the other hand the book is totally non-sexual to the extreme. There is never a burning in her loins and while she is naked in a few passages, it’s void of any sexual context. In one strange passage her teenage boyfriend spends the night on a train just “holding” her. Can you say blue balls?
Well, I'm hungry and watching a baseball game...is that what it is about?
Liberal or Conservative?
It is to laugh ... Katniss Everdeen is a 16 year old Sarah Palin. She shoots squirrels and rabbits through the eye with a bow and arrow and guts them in a couple minutes.
Most of the districts, including her District 12, just want to be left alone by an intrusive, tyrannical central government. The citizenry of the `Capitol’ is made up of pampered, affected/effete, barbarous modern Romans.
The Capitol, led by President Snow (Donald Sutherland who should be great in this role) requires that each district provide two `Tributes’—young people between the ages of 12 and 18—by lottery for the Games at which they fight to the death as punishment for defying the central authority 75 years earlier.
Most of the districts are extremely oppressed—severely disciplined for minor transgressions, subject to execution for possessing weapons or `poaching,’ even though many in District 12 are starving.
If the left is trying to say that the `Hunger Games’ is a parable for their cause (say, for the fine young Occupy brats) that’s simply risible. Poor people in this country sell food stamps for liquor and tobacco; there are no `hollow days’ for Obama’s 30%.
Finally, Katniss and her boyfriend Gale are survivalists, preppers and bow-strung `gun nuts.’ Her friend Peeta is a hard working baker and has courage, humor and fidelity, so it would be just as impossible for him to kowtow to a dictatorial central authority, to the evil President Snow. They would eat Occupy New York or anyone who showed up saying, “We’re from the Capitol and we’re here to help you.”
Too lazy to go find the article claiming Hunger Games was about the evil rich. I’ve listened to the audiobook and it’s clearly an anti-gov’t message. While the people in the Capitol are the ones that watch the games, they are (with a few exceptions) completely clueless. The clear “evil” in the book is President sn0w {see what I did there}.