The Hunger Games dares to explore oppression and materialism with such bleakness that no other YA dystopia can top it.
The Big Picture When the first Hunger Games movie came out in 2012, the world of cinema had just recently discovered the power of young adult literature as a source of inspiration. The Harry Potter saga had hit the screens for the first time little more than a decade prior in 2001, kickstarting a wave of fantasy movies based on books aimed at tweens and teens, from The Chronicles of Narnia to the ill-fated His Dark Materials film franchise.
The Hunger Games Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister's place in the Hunger Games: a televised competition in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to fight to the death. The Hunger Games Is the Most Realistic YA Dystopia Close Alas, this life of privilege is nothing but a lie told by the Capitol. Sure, winning the Hunger Games may free you from having to work the crops of District 11 or the coal mines of District 12, but it doesn’t protect you from the horrors imposed on the poor people of Panem. For starters, surviving the Games usually means living the rest of your days with the emotional toll of seeing kids your own age or even younger dying horrible deaths.
It’s a bleak, bleak scenario that is made even bleaker by the fact that Collins doesn’t make any effort to soft-cushion the violence perpetrated by the Capitol. From child sexual abuse to downright physical torture inflicted by government agents, the horrors created by Collins for her fictional world are very much rooted in reality.
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