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To: 1rudeboy
"'Hunger Games’ Scare You? Blame Bush, Says DVD"

What a pantload of tripe. From Wikipedia:

"Collins has said that the inspiration for The Hunger Games came from channel surfing on television. On one channel she observed people competing on a reality show and on another she saw footage of the invasion of Iraq. The two "began to blur in this very unsettling way" and the idea for the book was formed. The Greek myth of Theseus served as a major basis for the story, with Collins describing Katniss as a futuristic Theseus, and Roman gladiatorial games provided the framework. The sense of loss that Collins developed through her father's service in the Vietnam War also affected the story, with Katniss having lost her father at age 11, five years before the story begins. Collins stated that the deaths of young characters and other "dark passages" were the most difficult parts of the book to write, but that she had accepted that passages such as these were necessary to the story. She considered the moments where Katniss reflects on happier moments in her past to be more enjoyable."

54 posted on 09/09/2012 12:39:30 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Mad Dawgg

“On one channel she observed people competing on a reality show and on another she saw footage of the invasion of Iraq”

Yup, I was right, that’s how Liberals see the Iraq war, a Reality show where children are chosen to fight till the death.


55 posted on 09/09/2012 12:47:25 PM PDT by RatsDawg
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