Thursday, April 23, 2009

The Hunger Games-- Food & Sponsors

Dande:
Before they get to the Hunger Games, everything is about food. You really notice that this character notices food a lot.

Jolly:
Yeah that's because she can't get a lot at home. She's going to eat as much as she can before she gets there.


Chair:
Even in the interview, when they ask her her favorite part of the Capitol, she said the lamb stew.

Jolly:
That was funny.


Walle:
I don't get why it's called the Hunger Games. It's not like they're starving to death.

Newhope:
Because that would be boring!


Jolly:
If you don't go up to the Cornucopia and just can't hunt, you're dead.

Dande:
It's also because it's a lot different to fight people to the death on a full stomach than an empty stomach. And the thing is that as the Games go on, it gets a lot harder because people are more hungry.

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Dande:
What did you guys think about the way people pay to give them goodies?

Jolly:
I like that, except how it costs more the farther you get into the Game. That's messed up.


Smiley:
I don't get the whole sponsor thing. Because they say, "Oh, how many people must have payed so much money to give me this little thing."

O'Juice:
What happens is, you have to give a good impression, and then people that like her give money to Haymitch-


Jolly:
If I think that Katniss is going to make it all the way through the Game, I'll send Haymitch money to send her stuff throughout the Game.

Dande:
It's not like a bet, I mean I guess sure they have bets, but it's more like if you like them, if you think they're cool and you want to help them.


Walle:
I don't think Haymitch bought it, I think they would send the actual items, because the bread was created in District 11.

Dande:
But it isn't the items they're paying for, it's the privilege to give them the items.


Walle:
I think it's like when you're voting for American Idol, except you pay money to vote for them.

Dande:
That's a good example.

8 comments:

  1. **Spoiler** if you haven't read the book don't read this. the hunger games is a really good book. I just don't understand how Katniss doesn't understand that in the beginning Peta was always in love with her.

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  2. Anon 8:29, I think that the author was trying to show that she did know on some level, but was just burying it and ignoring it because she didn't know how to deal with it.

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  4. She's in major denial most of the time.

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  5. No she comes from a different background and way of living where love and compassion are rare things and not given or shown by strangers.
    At some level she sees his closeness and does grow closer to him but to her its something unheard and foreign.

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  6. what? you said tell us we're idiots

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