Short Reflections on the Book: The Hunger Games
I know that the wave of popular furor is probably about to crest and then subside, but I finally got around to reading The Hunger Games , by Suzanne Collins. I read it along with 2 teenagers that are in my Homeschool co-op. I have been taking them through classic literature all year ( The Iliad, The Three Theban Plays, Sophicles, etc ), and the carrot at the end of the stick was, if they finished their class early we'd work our way through something more "modern." They finished early and they chose The Hunger Games . As we pondered the story we asked the 4 worldview questions I've been using all year long. According to the story, how would the book answer these questions: Where are we, what are we, what's the problem, what's the remedy? The following are a few reflections I had on the book in answer to those questions. None of these are to be taken as a negative or positive endorsement. They're simply observations as I pondered the story. 1. The constr...