The Hunger Games-- Career Tributes

Dande:
What did you guys think of the Career Tributes?

Jolly:
The Career Tributes? I think that they especially made the rest of the tributes really mad, because they volunteered. They're hoping they end up there.

O'Juice:
I feel like they're idiots, and they're, I'm sorry, they're suicidal!

Jolly:
They're training to go kill themselves.

Chair:
They've trained to the point where no one else could possibly stop them-

Dande:
-except they do stop them!

Smiley:
But wouldn't that be better than just having some random person who's barely anything be forced to go into the Games?

Dande:
It's not fair to the other people who are forced to go, and then they can beat them so easily.

Chair:
They trained for their whole lives so they could slaughter 23 other people and return home as celebrities.

Walle:
And I don't think they need it, because they were already so rich.

Dande:
Well not rich, just richer than the other Districts.

Walle:
Yeah.

Jolly:
In District 12, you have to go in, no one wants to volunteer to take your place. Katniss only volunteered because Prim would have had to go in, which I don't get how that happened because Gale had like 42-

Chair:
But then they'd have to write something about Gale. They'd already dropped him by that point.

Laughs

Jolly:
But that's not the point. In District 12, unless there's someone else to volunteer to take your place, you have to go. Everyone in the rich Districts is volunteering to go because they've been trained for it their whole lives.

Newhope:
Which is technically illegal...

Walle:
I have a question, how do you think they're chosen? Because I'm pretty sure that a lot of people-

Dande:
Yeah, there'd be more than one who wants to volunteer.

Jolly:
Just let the people who want to go duke it out.

Dande:
Maybe they have procedures in the other towns.

O'Juice:
I guess they'd take everyone who volunteered and then pick their names.

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Dande:
But if this was real life, do you think the Careers would be better than they were in the book?

Chair:
The Careers weren't as good as everyone said they were. Once they lost the food, they all just started dying off.

Dande:
But I wonder because, they had to not be uber awesome because then Katniss couldn't win, and obviously she and Peeta had to win for the book to work, but if this was real, don't you think that the Career people would be some much better?

Newhope:
It's still technically illegal, so they can't be so overpowered that the Capitol knows they they've been training them.

Dande:
Oh yeah, I forgot that.