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A follow-up to my last post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Hungergames/comments/1cfjteo/random_thought_i_had_a_while_ago/

I’m kinda wanting to hear people’s views about this. It’s always canonically implied that Snow thinks the spark for the Districts rebelling was that the star crossed lovers were a facade.

To me it has always be heavily obvious that the district people either really adore K+P, or probably are too poor or indifferent to really give a shit. Also, the idea of love in such a violent atmosphere seems more inspiring than defying. While the whole berries scene would have sparked up current rebellious people, I feel the idea of K+P would have inspired people who would have been more likely to accept their lot. But idk so pls discuss 😂

In the end of the hunger games, Haymitch whispers "listen up, you're in trouble etc etc". Just before that, Cinna gives a cryptic hint with the dress design, but doesn't actually speak up what is happening. But why the need for secrecy? Assuming they were being monitored, why not discuss out loud that the berries were problematic, and that they needed to keep the damage to a minimum during the interviews because they didn't want a rebellion? The capitol would surely prefer a prepared Katniss vs an oblivious one, right?

In book 2, Snow comes to discuss this exact topic. Why not immediately, or via, say, Caesar as part of the interview prep?

Would love to hear your take!

Since Amazon made the movies paid I haven’t been able to watch them in ages and my DVDs just arrived!

Or what if he died of a heart attack before the 74th hunger games and then Seneca Crane was made president of Panem. How would someone more mentally stable and someone who grew up in the capital long after the dark days(not viewing districts as enemies but taking current system for granted) govern Panem compared to Snow or Plutarch? Some of that generation may compromise with the districts more and would be unlikely to be as brutal as Snow may use more carrots almost like Dengism, but would send peacekeepers to win Panem, and possibly hold hunger games with captured rebels having more flamboyant propaganda, Capital propaganda would be more competent. Seneca Crane said that the hunger games brings Panem together so he may hold more hunger games in response to the rebellion. The rebellion would be a result of Snow being too hard on the districts according to Crane and he would be interested in the root causes of the rebellion or as the result of D13(D13 existence would shock him), so Crane or Flickermen would see the rebellion as an invasion by D13. The same questions can be asked for Ceasar Flickerman becoming president of Panem.

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I was thinking about reading Hunger Games in spanish, but a major turn-off for me is when the character names are translated as well.

E.g. Katniss in the danish version is named "Kattua" because it sounds similar to the danish word for katnip, which is "katte urt". It is for this reason i worry about character names in the spanish version, so if anyone knows about any changes from english to spanish in the books, please let me know. Thanks.

What was the original 3rd quarter quell going to be? Also can you guess what happened to Panem after Mocking jay part 2.

The Hunger Games presents a world where audiences are entertained by a child deathmatch. It asks us to imagine that humanity could, given the right circumstances, be so cruel that we enjoy watching the deaths of children.

Some people have pushed back on this idea, claiming that humans cannot stoop to such lows, that a whole society would never enjoy watching children fight to the death. But, because The Hunger Games franchise exists, and people enjoy watching/reading The Hunger Games, does this not prove this to be true about our world?

People who watch & read The Hunger Games are clearly entertained by the spectacle of a child deathmatch (otherwise they wouldn't be watching/reading it), only this is a fictional one. How psychologically different does that make us from The Capitol?

I made a a video about this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK0qhISoC7k), but this post wasn't meant as pure self-promo, rather, a question to the subreddit: would our society enjoy watching a hunger games, and if not, what would it take to push us to such an extreme?

I’ve heard this theory a lot and just wanted someone to kinda explain it to me

There seem to be a lot of gay characters in fanfic. I'm not homophobic, don't come for me, but what is that? The only instance of that (as far as I know) is Finnick being mentioned to be shipped off to both men and women. Despite this, there seems to be a lot. I can see people in the Capitol, but I don't think anyone in the outer districts would be as accepting. Why is that?

Edit: I'm not talking about ship fics, obviously. I'm talking about the original ones.

If Glimmer had a theme song it would be “Bejeweled” by Taylor Swift but she would replace shimmer with glimmer. Leven says Glimmer is a Swiftie so she would approve (she seems like a fun celebrity, she regularly replies to comments and is very sweet).

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Everyone talks about the movie/book they’d like about the games but I’d want to read / see the story about Crassus Snow & Dean Highbottom as friends first, then drunkenly coming up with the idea for the games and then the ultimate falling out. Would like to see the original Snow and how devious he was and how much it changed Casca Highbottom.

I'm about 150 pages into the book, Finding it kind of boring and would rather read other stuff, (I haven't seen the movie yet btw) (I've also read the first trilogy btw)

I know this is nothing new, but every time I read MJ I'm disgusted with the lack of empathy for Katniss (and for Peeta too, since they only care about his plight because of how it affects Katniss's ability to perform).

I love that the book makes it clear that Katniss isn't some chosen one on a heroic journey, that she is purely a symbol who's used and then tossed aside once they've gotten everything they could out of her. But it's so hard to read because of that.

Can't tell if this is a fun post or actually serious, but I'll go with the former.

Recently, I've noticed something about Thresh, mainly his name and his thriving in the wheat field in the games. At first, everything makes sense; Thresh is a farming term and it makes sense that someone who's been around crops all their life would know grain well. But here's the problem. District 11 doesn't claim all agriculture, District 9 is specifically grain (wheat, oats, etc.) with District 11 taking everything else. Threshing is almost exclusively a wheat and grain harvesting term, and Thresh wouldn't have grown up around grain because THAT'S A DIFFERENT DISTRICT. This is probably just a world-building oversight but I find it really funny.

Wait, theory: Thresh is secretly from District 9 (TikTok will have a field day with this one)

(I would also like to mention that both the names Chaff and Reaper are also mainly related to grain. District 11 is falling apart.)

We see in TBOSAS that it’s the mentors who select and distribute sponsors gifts. And Haymitch appears to be wholly in charge of sending in gifts to Katniss.

When I read the first book as a teen, I imagined the folks of 11 rallying together at their local Justice Building, pulling out their pocket change and scraping it together to send her in bread.

But that’s obviously not the case. We don’t even know if donors can note what they would like their funds to be used for.

Did Rue’s mentor send the bread, then? Do you think there were consequences for that action?

I don’t think there’s an answer for any of this. Just wanted to hear y’all’s thoughts.

1 babs hunger games or the 11th 2 the 25th quarter quell 3 the 50th quarter quell

When re-reading the book I realized how the Hunger Games themselves would have potentially destroyed District 12's population if it were to continue

I mean think about it, District 12 only has a population of around 8,000 people and naturally only a few hundred of them would be children from 12-18. With this in mind imagine loosing hundreds of your already limited pool kids over the years, and considering the death rate for District 12 that's a lot of bloodlines wasted

And not only that with so many people already dying from starvation and mine accidents the lack of eligible children would not only make a drastic impact to District 12's industry, but will also severely impacts the genetic diversity of the place causing inbreeding or worse a drastic decline of the population until the people of 12 are extinct

What's bad about this is that the problem here is only unique to 12 since the rest of the Districts have more than 10,000 people while their industries aren't as deadly as coal mining

If Madge didn’t volunteer and Annie was in the games, do you think Finnick would have played a very different game/ and been less willing to go along with the rebel plot?

I heard about the prequel and am now considering re-reading the series. I read the Hunger Games as a 10 year old and I'm now 20 years old in college. I remember these books being all the rage in middle school, since they were marketed as YA. Obviously, there are mature themes and suble social commentary that a pre-puberty reader will not fully grasp.

As a 10 yr old, I remember understanding that the Capitol kept the high number and low number districts divided and docile. The spectacle depicts district children as animalistic rather than human in the eyes of Capitol citizens. I more or less understood that part. However, I wondered why the districts didn't rebel earlier by just storming the Capitol or every tribute simultaneously committing suicide during one of the games. Why didn't they just infiltrate District 2 and make them turn against Snow?

Of course, there was the first rebellion, which resulted in the games as a punishment. When Seneca allowed for two victors, he inadvertently created a symbol that ignited the spark of the revolution. I didn't get that as a kid, I wondered why it took them 75 years rebel.

Did anyone else re-read the books as an adult? How did your understanding change?