Friday, April 24, 2009

The Hunger Games-- Cinna & Killing

Dande:
What did you think of the whole 'girl on fire' thing.

Jolly:
That, I totally expected that to backfire, the premiere outfit, for when they introduced the pairs-


Walle:
I still think that the stylists are geniuses. The way that they truly try to make Katniss and Peeta actually shine.

Jolly:
I just liked Cinna, because he was nice. He was the only character that didn't have a really bad part in the book. He was just awesome for the entire thing.


Walle:
I suspect the maybe, Cinna might be from District 12. Because he choose District 12, and he actually tried to get more sponsors.

Dande:
But how could a person... isn't he from the Capitol though?


O'Juice:
Yeah, but I'm guessing he might have some kind of background, something might have happened-

Jolly:
-in District 12, yeah. A family there, or something.
Dande:
Well, does the Capitol have any connection to the rest of the Districts?

O'Juice:
I don't think everyone's always... I mean, if you're in the Capitol, it's not like you can't go out. He might have gone to District 12 for something, and then something might have happened there.


Chair:
Maybe he just got a shipment of coal and saw the people, and said, "I should help them someday..."

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Dande: Before she went to the Games, the main character, Katniss, she watched this stuff on TV, and everybody watched this stuff on TV-

O'Juice:
Because they were forced to. They had to.


Chair:
It's mandatory.
Dande:
I don't get why the people stuck with it.

Chair:
With what?

Dande:
I get that, maybe, you're right, that some of the districts that are really rich, they'd have people who went in there and owned it... but all the people who are really poor, you'd think they'd refuse to kill someone rather than-

O'Juice:
Yeah, they did, they did the rebellion and-

Walle:
-and that's why they started the Hunger Games.

Dande:
Yeah, but why did the people who got chosen- the kids- why didn't they say, I'm not going to kill anyone, I'd rather have them kill me than kill somebody else.

Chair:
Because then they'd be dead.


O'Juice:
It's for their families, it's not just them. If they do that, the Capitol will kill their families.

Jolly:
I assume that's why Katniss only killed the boy from District 1-


Chair:
Well, he deserved it.

Jolly:
-yeah, he did. But, because she knew that everyone had families back home, and she just wanted to survive, she didn't want to have to kill them.

3 comments:

  1. i think if she could choose she wouldn't kill him, she would propably hide or something...but she had to, to protect herself...

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  2. Katniss is worried before the games that she will lose her sense of right and wrong in the arena if she forgets the other tributes are people. however she feels obligated to win for the good of her family and her district.

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  3. Anon 11:31, I agree, it's not like Katniss ever enjoyed any of it.

    Anon 3:45, I think that's one of the reasons the books are so popular, because it's such an interesting situation to think about and there are so many moral dilemmas associated with it.

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