“The Hunger Games is a young adult novel”
lol...Why bother?
Why bother for Hunger Games or for ‘young adult?’ Cause if for ‘young adult’ you’re dismissing quite a few established literary classics.
I’m not saying Hunger Games is on that level, I’m saying don’t laugh at the demographic targeted.
Surely you know that hundreds of literary classics fit that description at one time?
If not - don’t bother.
I’ve read them and they are a great glimpse of what a totalitarian state looks like-—much like The Brave New World and 1984——only people still reproduce the normal way and in families with a mother and father. Right now England is removing the words Bride and Bridegroom and wife and husband from all books and documents——so to re-eduacate and normalize the abolition of family as we know it and Marx envisioned-—that and the abolition of religion which is done in this book. Control words and you control the ideas.
Other than that-—it is a perfect glimpse of the total depravity of the rulers who use people for their “games” -—very much like the gladiator games in Rome with interesting technological twists. There is total control over everyone’s life. You have to “sneak” and break “laws” at many times to just eat and survive. Rulers have no humanity whatsoever and they watch grisly killings for entertainment—of children basically. Good picture of where obamanation is headed.
It is well written book and I know many older adults who love it as much as the younger ones.