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Category Archive '“The Hunger Games”'
15 Dec 2013
Visions of Authority in Fantasy"The Hunger Games", Government, Harry Potter, Hunger Games![]() Peter Blair contends that popular fiction written for young people is prone to channel directly from the culture’s psyche. The replacement of the Harry Potter series in the bestseller list with Hunger Games books may indicate that the popular attitude toward authority has grown increasingly negative.
06 Dec 2013
Katnis Everdeen Kills Everything"The Hunger Games", Amusement, Archery, Hunger Games, Video![]() Keep watching as it switches to credits. Hat tip to Vanderleun. The Hunger Games is inspiring young girls to take up archery. NPR 14 Sep 2013
The Jewish Hunger Games"The Hunger Games", Hunger Games, Jewish Hunor, Parody![]() Hat tip to James Harberson. 24 Sep 2012
Good Times in the Capital"The Hunger Games", Government, Recession, Washington DC![]()
The United States is experiencing the worst economic times since the Great Depression, but there is one region of the country that has been enjoying boom times all its own.
———————————– Ross Douthat, sounding unusually conservative, noted yesterday that the comparative advantage in affluence of America’s capital these days seemed to resemble that of the capital of a particular dystopian fantasy novel recently made into a successful film, and remarked that, if relations between the provinces and the capital have not yet completely reached the point depicted in The Hunger Games, their differences in prosperity have exactly the same moral basis.
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