Katniss the Cattail

The book is subtitled An Unauthorized Guide to Names and Symbols in Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games, thus giving us a good idea of just what this book will be about.

The book has a number of interesting points including:

Panem comes from the bread and circuses concept of ancient Rome.

Katniss is an edible plant.

Peeta relates to pita which is a type of bread.

The book covers religious references to names used.

There are specific names of people in Panem and where the names are taken from.

There's a section on symbols and one on illusions to literature and life.

There's a list of districts and their products.

>Some names are mythological in origin. Some are made up, some have historical references and some come from Shakespeare.

om2>One of the major points of this book is that it covers some things that I haven't yet found covered in another book (although other books do have a list of districts and what they produce.) It's interesting to see the derivation of terms used in the books and the movies.

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