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Katniss later allies with Rue, who is fatally wounded by a tribute from District 1 while Katniss destroys the careers' supplies. His hair is blonde and his eyes blue, much unlike the other residents of the Seam who are referred to as mostly dark-haired. Social inequality, unaccountable governance and violence against children have also been suggested as prominent themes. year-old Katniss Everdeen from District12, in the coal-rich region that was once Appalachia, volunteers for the 74th Hunger Games in place of her 12-year-old sister, Primrose.

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On November 5, 2019, the BBC News listed The Hunger Games on its list of the 100 most influential novels. The Greek myth of Theseus served as a major basis for the story, with Collins describing Katniss as a futuristic Theseus, and Roman gladiatorial games provided the framework. These are a televised annual event in which the Capitol randomly selects a boy and a girl-known as tributes-between the ages of 12 and 18 from each of the twelve districts that comprise Panem, pitting them against each other in a contest to the death from which only one may emerge victorious. Simpson also points to events similar to the Passion of Jesus; in the Games, "Christ figure" Peeta Mellark is stabbed after warning Katniss to flee for her life, and is then buried in the ground and placed in a cave for three days before emerging with a new lease on life.

The novel is the first in The Hunger Games trilogy, followed by Catching Fire (2009) and Mockingjay (2010).

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Although both of them receive a hero's welcome as a couple, Katniss is warned by Haymitch that the Capitol may take action against her for her defiance. He feels no sympathy for the enemies to the rebellion, and he feels fine with torture and murder, even of innocent civilians, to advance the rebellion. Her character undergoes a great depression before the trilogy after her husband dies in a mining accident. Her main classical source of inspiration is the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, in which, as a punishment for past crimes, Minos forces Athens to sacrifice seven youths and seven maidens to the Minotaur, which kills them in a vast labyrinth.In a 2016 report, approximately half of the girl archers surveyed were influenced by The Hunger Games to take up the sport. With neither willing to kill the other, Katniss comes up with a solution: a double suicide by eating poisonous berries. This stunning paperback box set includes all three books in Suzanne Collins’s internationally bestselling Hunger Games trilogy together with the prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Katniss's best friend, Gale Hawthorne, confesses his love for Katniss, which shocks and confuses her. S. alone (more than 28 million copies of The Hunger Games, more than 19 million copies of Catching Fire, and more than 18 million copies of Mockingjay).

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The series was also criticized for the romantic plotline: Rollie Welch of Ohio's The Plain Dealer criticized the characters' lack of resolute behavior, [34] and Jennifer Reese of Entertainment Weekly stated that there was little distinction between Peeta and Gale and the series lacked the "erotic energy" seen in the Twilight series. The story follows an 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow, whose family name has fallen from grace as the remaining Snows live in poverty and struggle to keep up appearances in post-war Panem. In August 2012, the series ranked second, exceeded only by the Harry Potter series in NPR’s poll of the top 100 teen novels, which asked voters to choose their favorite young adult books. The Hunger Games was also a "2008 Cybil Winner" for fantasy and science-fiction books along with The Graveyard Book, [40] one of School Library Journal 's "Best Books 2008", [41] and a "Booklist Editors' Choice" in 2008. However, he stated that there were "displays of authorial laziness that kids will accept more readily than adults" and that the love triangle was standard for the genre.Once Katniss and Peeta become the last two survivors, the Gamemakers revoke the rule change to force one to kill the other for a dramatic finale. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, based on the second novel in the series, was released the following year on November 22, 2013. C. offered a class 2014-2016 that examined the themes in The Hunger Games world titled “The Hunger Games: Class, Politics, and Marketing”. First published as a hardcover in the United States on September 14, 2008, The Hunger Games had a first printing of 50,000copies, which was bumped up twice to 200,000copies.

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