Blog 8 Hunger Games

Where do I even begin? The novel Hunger Games along with the attached readings quite frankly sicken me, but at the same time, make me oddly curious. I did not like what was going on in Hunger Games and I didn't agree with it, but for some reason, I couldn't stop my fingers from turning the pages. I wasn't really happy to read about people dying but I was excited to see who would win. I think this does not go along with the fact that every human has an innate nature to be savage but it goes along with the fact that humans are competitive. It is a game after all, a horrible savage game but a game. I think people get so caught up in the game that they forget about what is really going on. They get trapped in the story. I don't think the people within the novel the characters watching the games realize that the kids dying are actually dying, if you don't know the people within the games and you are not affected, it’s the same as reality or even non-reality TV. You can view it as real or as fake as you want to. If this was a TV show and no actual harm was happening to the people, you have to admit that it would probably be a very exciting series. I think that's what the citizens would have had to force themselves to think in order to get through watching it every year. They would have had to force themselves to not think about the contestants as real people, but people in a game, characters. I think what is worse is that every person is required to watch the Hunger Games and all to remind them that the capital is in charge and to remind/prevent them from rebelling. I had a hard time predicting what was going to happen in this book, usually it’s pretty easy in a novel to predict what is going to happen next, but I couldn't in this one. The book kept throwing me for a loop. I thought that that she would end up killing him but she doesn't. Then at the end I thought she was going to kill him since they said there could only be one tribute but am yet thrown for another twist when she pulls the stunt with the berries, I never could have predicted that in a million years. I really liked the novel as a whole, which really makes me feel guilty inside, that I would like a book that describes kids fighting each other to the death. I think it goes back to what Gabler said that we like to "peer through the keyhole," we are so caught up in the plot because these things don't happen to us. It is interesting to us to see how other governments operate, and these things actually to me make our government seem pretty nice right about now. Also as Americans like drama and competitiveness and this novel has both. Yes it could be that we like it because we are savage Americans but I don't think that, that is why I personally like the novel, I think it has to do with the thing that attract us to reality TV. The fact that no one knows what is going to happen next and we really want to watch and find out.