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A review by dogmomirene
The Hunger Games Companion by Lois H. Gresh
4.0
If you're a fan of The Hunger Games trilogy or if you're teaching the novel, you will probably enjoy this book. There were some sections that I scanned over, but other sections I read with genuine interest.
My middle school students like to buzz about the Mayan calendar/the 2012 "prediction." This book has a great timeline of doomsday predictions dating back to 2800 BC. The details of these predictions are spread throughout the book.
The chapters tackle a variety of topics from "Repressive Regimes and Rebellions: Could the Hunger Games Really Happen?" to "The Nature of Evil: President Snow and His Cronies." There are chapters on the weapons, the use of torture, and medicines and poisons. One chapter focuses on the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. I thought this chapter was particularly weak. It's a shame that this book didn't go into more detail analyzing the parallels from various versions of the Theseus myth, since Suzanne Collins has said this myth was one piece of inspiration for the trilogy.
A chapter I liked very much was "Hype Over Substance: A Mirror of Modern Times." This chapter was actually spooky. I don't own a television, and I haven't watched reality TV in a long time. The chart here detailing pieces of "plot lines" on reality TV shows appalled me.
My middle school students like to buzz about the Mayan calendar/the 2012 "prediction." This book has a great timeline of doomsday predictions dating back to 2800 BC. The details of these predictions are spread throughout the book.
The chapters tackle a variety of topics from "Repressive Regimes and Rebellions: Could the Hunger Games Really Happen?" to "The Nature of Evil: President Snow and His Cronies." There are chapters on the weapons, the use of torture, and medicines and poisons. One chapter focuses on the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. I thought this chapter was particularly weak. It's a shame that this book didn't go into more detail analyzing the parallels from various versions of the Theseus myth, since Suzanne Collins has said this myth was one piece of inspiration for the trilogy.
A chapter I liked very much was "Hype Over Substance: A Mirror of Modern Times." This chapter was actually spooky. I don't own a television, and I haven't watched reality TV in a long time. The chart here detailing pieces of "plot lines" on reality TV shows appalled me.