The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games/ Suzanne Collins. New York : Scholastic Press, 2008. (374 p.)

I just finished reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. The Hunger Games is an annual televised event in the dystopian country of Panem. In these games, adolescents compete in a fight to the death. It is the ultimate reality show except the “reality” is manipulated by the Gamekeepers to keep the event, which lasts several weeks, exciting to viewers. So really this reality show is not much different from The Bachelor or American Idol; it’s just that the stakes are higher. In this bleak world, even the glimmers of hope are tainted, but the hopelessness of the story is simultaneously compelling and repellent.