hunger games

            In my reading of hunger games, I began to take notice of some interesting crosses in hunger games between typical youth fiction, and dystopian, more political works of fiction such as 1984 and Fahrenheit 451.  My primary experience with youth fiction has been reading through the Harry Potter novels (and later movies), and It is this context that I am deriving some comparison too.  In many ways I found Hunger Games to share similarities in reading level and tone; while hunger games had a dark subject matter, filled with violence and atrocities, It was not nearly as disturbing as soon other works of fiction I have delved into in the past.  This is quite an obvious statement though in that been a piece directed towards youths, there is only a certain amount of violence and degradation that can be included before this becomes a particular point of interest and controversy.  This being said, I felt as though this level of physicality was helpful in making the novel accessible, and generating a level of excitement to balance out political insinuations throughout.

            This brings me the aspects of the novel that I particularly enjoyed, that being the political insinuation and historical references to revolution and cultural struggle.  As I mentioned before, I noticed strong similarities between 1984, Fahrenheit 451, and Hunger Games.  This comes largely from the concept of government and powerful organizations controlling the common people.  This aspect of Big brother is watching, and government control has always interested me, as I often find this to be a reflection of our current political system.  I found it more interesting that there were included many references to colonial America; there was the motif of the 13 districts reflecting the 13 states, or colonies being oppressed by the dominant forces in the world.