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[quote=Anonymous]I finished the book today- haven’t seen the movie yet because my reading was under way.

It was a really great book. Highly highly suggest reading it.

Overall, Hunger Games has so much relevance to our society. Think of how we sacrifice young people up for our entertainment. (No we do not live in that specific futuristic postwar dystopia).

The book was the best possible wya of explaining Snow. No he’s not justified. He’s ambitious. The family down on their luck, he’s fighting for survival. The environment where he was raised—spoiled but also suffering—and then dr Gaul’s influence, develop him into a bad person. The whole book, he’s trying to decide if what dr Gaul says is true. Are they just animals fighting each other for individual survival. Sadly his experiences aren’t positive, and he’s too selfish (that spoiled background) to find any other morals to cling too.

The ideal was supposed to be Sejanus. Someone who could rise above it.

But he didn’t make it. No one does until.. Katniss + Haymitch + Plutarch Heavensbee + later Tigris + Cinna + a few others. Rare for anybody to rise up out of the brutal and imbalanced world they live in.

I wasn’t always a big Hunger Games fan. But my child read it all last year. I revisited it, and it stands out as a valuable piece of literature and film. It answers questions about freedom, nature, systems of government, power, revolution, fighting for something.

One of the best moments to come later is the fate of President Coin. And what Katniss chooses to do with her freedom, regarding Coin and then raising babies in peace.[/quote]

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