I resisted reading these books until I realized that my 13 year old granddaughter was reading them. I read all three in three days. I’m still digesting them and not sure how I feel about them. I can’t give a full assessment because it would involve spoilers. There are two or three plot twists that trouble me. I’m not sure its all about tyranny and fighting centralized government. It’s more subtle than that.
Why not post them here?
I heard that the “Hunger Games” was created as an anti-Bush analogy, but I’m not exactly sure how. Supposedly someone thought that if the “Bush Doctrine” continued, we would be staging war games for entertainment.
:: the evil President Snow ::
All sorts of agenda and ideological bells and whistles went of on this one.
Tell me, is this “evil president” (note that Cletus did not capitalize the ‘p’ but the author did!) considerably ...ahem ...
“white as SNOW”?
I thought it felt conservative in message. All the good guys were hard working anti government people living in the rural areas. The bad guys were shallow government supporting metro- sexuals living in the capital.
Bkmk
Some critics argue The Hunger Games is a rip off of Battle Royale. Battle Royale is a Japanese novel/film about Shuya Nanahara, a high-school student who is forced by the government to compete in a deadly game where the students must kill each other in order to win.
It was one of the ten highest-grossing films in Japan. The novel was published in 1999 and the film released in 2000.
thank you for posting this review.
Have you seen this?
Incite Your Passion with the Instigator
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC8PqBKHrXA