Posts Tagged by The Hunger Games
Don’t ban The Hunger Games, ban the parents
| April 17, 2012 | Posted by Dan Peacock under culture, lifestyle |
I read in the news last week that several “special interest groups” are trying to get The Hunger Games banned. Legions of concerned parents, among others, are worried that their kids will transform from doe-eyed angels to knife-twirling killing machines after reading a few pages of the chart-topping trilogy. Initially, you might think that deep down there is a whiff of logic to this. A young adult novel focusing on a group of youngsters systematically slaughtering each other as part of a reality show probably isn’t appropriate for a pre-teen audience. But there’s the crux of it. Young adult novel. Despite the average age of The Hunger Games readers, the books are actually intended for people in their late teens… more
The Hunger Games
| March 25, 2012 | Posted by Sep Gohardani under entertainment, reviews |
Film Information: Released March 23, 2012; Certificate 12A Cast: Jennifer Lawrence; Josh Hutcherson; Liam Hemsworth; Woody Harrelson; Elizabeth Banks; Lenny Kravitz; Wes Bentley; Isabelle Fuhrman; Willow Shields; Donald Sutherland; Paula Malcomson Director: Gary Ross Screenwriters: Gary Ross; Billy Ray; Suzanne Collins (author of source text) Running Time: 142 Minutes Plot At an unspecified date in the future the ruins of North America have become the nation of Panem, a dystopian, dictatorial land that dealt with an uprising and is making the different districts of the country pay for this insolence by organising a “reaping,” or raffle, which selects one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 from each of the twelve districts of the country to compete… more
Should I read… The Chrysalids?
| December 22, 2011 | Posted by Emma French under should I read...? |
I’m a big fan of dystopian fiction, from young adult favourites such as The Hunger Games to the classics of Orwell and Huxley, but The Chrysalids by science fiction legend John Wyndham (see Day of the Triffids) is a new favourite of mine for how it doesn’t focus on a huge struggle against authority, but rather much smaller battles on a more minute scale – the book centres on the children of a tiny village in a future where a disaster has caused humans to revert back to more primitive, provincial roots. The story is narrated by ten-year-old David Strorm, who has been bought up in a claustrophobically Christian fundamentalist society, and whose god-fearing world is based on one attribute… more
