The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games is a science fiction novel written by American writer Suzanne Collins in 2008. The Hunger Games is the first novel in a trilogy that also includes Catching Fire and Mockingjay. Together, they are known as the Hunger Games Trilogy. When Collings wrote the Hunger Games, she drew upon Greek mythology, Roman gladiatorial games, and contemporary reality television, such as survivor, as inspiration for thematic content. The book is significantly more violent and extreme than many other contemporary young adult fiction. In addition to brutal physical and emotional violence, the narrator is explicitly honest with the reader of the effects of poverty and death. The novel works as a traditional story, and can be seen as a bildungsroman,

The setting is in a nation known as Panem, established in North America after an unknown apocalyptic event. The nation consists of the Capitol, a highly advanced city, who implements strict social control over the rest of the nation, the twelve substantially poorer, surrounding districts. The novel starts at the beginning of an annual event called the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games are a punishment for a past rebellion against the Capitol, in which a 13th district was annihilated. In the Hunger Games one boy and one girl between the age of 12 and 18 from each of the twelve district surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle to the

Minos had trapped the creature in a labyrinth, in which the tributes would be forced to enter. In this labyrinth they would attempt to escape, but in the inevitable end, they would be killed by the creature. In this way, the labyrinth only prolonged the tributes’ agony. Theseus, a great Greek hero, arrived in Athens before the tributes were due, and he volunteered to attend as a male tribute. When Theseus and the tributes were removed to Crete and paraded before the citizens there, he was notices by Mino’s daughter, who fell in love with him and offered him a ball of yarn to grant him his survival. Unraveling the ball of yarn as he explored the labyrinth, he was able to kill the Minotaur and escaping the labyrinth (http://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/The_Myths/Theseus_Adventures/theseus_adventures.html