The Title

I have just started the book The Hunger Games for this next book of choice. I really didn’t want to choose it just because it didn’t seem that interesting to me and I thought it would only make me uncomfortable in a way that I couldn’t stop thinking about the torture. I’ve already read about 50 pages in what seems like an hour; it’s definitely a page turner. It also did exactly what I thought. I can’t stop thinking about what the children have to go through. The thing that gets me is exactly what the title says, The Hunger Games. They have this “game” every year that has kids fighting for their lives. I get the fact that the government wants their people to know they ARE in charge so they won’t try and escape again. But how can any human design this game to have as little as 12 year olds fight until their death or even try and survive. The title matches the book very well just because it’s what the book is about but I understand that there is much more that will be coming from the book. I just can’t get over the fact that the government makes the children hunt and be hunted like that. There was a guy in the beginning that was at the “festival” when they announced who was going to be competing in this game that was completely drunk. I think I would be drunk for the rest of my life if I was forced to hunt people and actually survived it.