Critical Insights: The Hunger Game

This is a very readable book full of information and analysis of The Hunger Games. Some of the main points include:

The series can be used in classrooms for gender studies, citizenship classes and related history/psychology classes.

The series led to a growth in archery interest and classes.

Scapegoats.

Social criticism in dystopian fiction.

Can violence be morally legitimate?

Panam had a population of around 4.5 million. (Current United States population is around 329 million. This could lead to a good classroom discussion of what happened to over 320 million Americans?)

Some people really hated the Mockingjay book.

Some people hated the anti-war stance of the books. (Which, I assume, meant that they supported war?)

There are similarities to the book 1984.

Katniss had become a surrogate father.

The importance of fear as an element in controlling a population.

Appalachia and The Hunger Games.

Gift theory.

Katniss and the ecosystem. (She knew a lot about the forest and this gave her an advantage in the first Hunger Games she was in.)

There is lots of information about PTSD.

Scientists studied fear condition and, in one case, used that on an 11 month boy. (So, how can such a thing be justified? The kid was only 11 months old, for goodness sake.)

Myth and moral guidelines for what is right and what is wrong.

Spartacus and Katniss.

There's a lot on Machiavelli related to The Hunger Games people and events and the section is very interesting.

For a while Katniss lived in hatred.

This, of course, is not all that there is in the book. There's a lot more and it's all pretty interesting. If you are into any analysis of the Hunger Games this is one of the books you should get.