The Hunger Games (Novel) (2008)

The Hunger Games
North American rst edition cover

Author Suzanne Collins
Cover artist Tim O'Brien
Country United States
Language English
Series The Hunger Games trilogy
Genre Adventure
Dystopian
Science ction
[1]
Action
Published September 14, 2008
(Scholastic Press)
Media type Print (hardcover,
paperback)
Pages 374
ISBN 978-0-439-02352-8
The Hunger Games
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hunger Games is a 2008 science
ction novel by the American writer
Suzanne Collins. It is written in the voice
of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives
in the dystopian, post-apocalyptic nation
of Panem in North America. The Capitol, a
highly advanced metropolis, exercises
political control over the rest of the
nation. The Hunger Games are an annual
event in which one boy and one girl
aged 1218 from each of the twelve
districts surrounding the Capitol are
selected by lottery to compete in a
televised battle to the death.
The book received mostly positive
feedback from major reviewers and
authors. It was praised for its storyline
and character development, though some
reviewers have noted similarities between
Collins' book and Koushun Takami's Battle
Royale (1999). In writing The Hunger
Games, Collins drew upon Greek
mythology, Roman gladiatorial games, and
contemporary reality television for
thematic content. The novel won many
awards, including the California Young
Reader Medal, and was named one of
Publishers Weekly's "Best Books of the
Year" in 2008.
The Hunger Games was rst published in
hardcover on September 14, 2008, by
Scholastic, featuring a cover designed by
Tim O'Brien. It has since been released in
paperback and also as an audiobook and
ebook. After an initial print of 200,000,
the book had sold 800,000 copies by
February 2010. Since its release, The
Hunger Games has been translated into
26 languages, and publishing rights have
been sold in 38 territories. The novel is
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OCLC 181516677
(https://www.worldcat.org
/oclc/181516677)
LC Class PZ7.C6837 Hun 2008
Followed by Catching Fire
the rst in The Hunger Games trilogy,
followed by Catching Fire (2009) and
Mockingjay (2010). A lm adaptation,
directed by Gary Ross and co-written and
co-produced by Collins herself, was
released in 2012.
Contents
1 Background
2 Plot
3 Themes
4 Publication history
5 Critical reception
5.1 Battle Royale controversy
6 Film adaptation
7 See also
8 References
9 External links
Background
Collins has said that the inspiration for The Hunger Games came from channel
surng on television. On one channel she observed people competing on a reality
show and on another she saw footage of the invasion of Iraq. The two "began to
blur in this very unsettling way" and the idea for the book was formed.
[2]
The
Greek myth of Theseus served as a major basis for the story, with Collins
describing Katniss as a futuristic Theseus, and Roman gladiatorial games
provided the framework. The sense of loss that Collins developed through her
father's service in the Vietnam War was also an inuence on the story, with
Katniss having lost her father at age 11, ve years before the story begins.
[3]
Collins stated that the deaths of young characters and other "dark passages" were
the most dicult parts of the book to write, but that she had accepted that
passages such as these were necessary to the story.
[4]
She considered the
moments where Katniss reects on happier moments in her past to be more
enjoyable.
[4]
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Plot
The Hunger Games takes place in a nation known as Panem, established in North
America after the destruction of the continent's civilization by an unknown
apocalyptic event. The nation consists of the wealthy Capitol and twelve
surrounding, poorer districts united under the Capitol's control. District 12,
where the book begins, is located in the coal-rich region that was formerly known
as Appalachia.
[5]
As punishment for a past rebellion against the Capitol, in which a 13th district
was destroyed, one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 from each
district are selected by an annual lottery to participate in the Hunger Games, an
event in which the participants, the "tributes", must ght to the death in an
outdoor arena controlled by the Capitol, until only one individual remains. The
story is narrated by 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, a girl from District 12 who
volunteers for the 74th annual Hunger Games in place of her younger sister,
Primrose. The male tribute chosen from District 12 is Peeta Mellark, a former
schoolmate of Katniss who once gave her bread from his family's bakery when her
family was starving.
Katniss and Peeta are taken to the Capitol, where their drunken mentor, Haymitch
Abernathy, victor of the 50th Hunger Games, instructs them to watch and
determine the strengths and weaknesses of the other tributes. "Stylists" are
employed to make each tribute look his or her best; Katniss's stylist, Cinna, is the
only person at the Capitol with whom she feels a degree of understanding. The
tributes are publicly displayed to the Capitol audience in an interview with
television host Caesar Flickerman, and have to attempt to appeal to the television
audience in order to obtain "sponsors". During this time, Peeta reveals on-air his
longtime unrequited love for Katniss. Katniss believes this to be a ploy to gain
sponsors, who can be critical to survival because of their ability to send gifts such
as food, medicine, and tools to favored tributes during the Games.
While nearly half the tributes are killed in the rst day of the Games, Katniss
relies on her well-practiced hunting and survival skills to remain unharmed and
concealed from the other tributes. A few days into the Games, Katniss develops an
alliance with Rue, a 12-year-old girl from the agricultural District 11 who reminds
Katniss of her own sister. In the meantime, Peeta appears to have joined forces
with the tributes from the richer districts. However, when he has the opportunity
to kill Katniss, he instead saves her from the others. Katniss's alliance with Rue is
brought to an abrupt end when Rue is killed by another tribute, whom Katniss
then kills in self-defence with an arrow. Katniss sings to Rue until she dies, and
spreads owers over her body as a sign of respect for Rue and disgust towards
the Capitol.
Apparently because of Katniss and Peeta's image in the minds of the audience as
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The Hunger Games author
Suzanne Collins in 2010
"star-crossed lovers", a rule change is announced midway through the Games,
allowing two tributes from the same district to win the Hunger Games as a
couple. Upon hearing this, Katniss begins searching for Peeta. She eventually
nds him, wounded and in hiding. As she nurses him back to health, she acts the
part of a young girl falling in love to gain more favor with the audience and,
consequently, gifts from her sponsors. When the couple remains as the last two
surviving tributes, the Gamemakers reverse the rule change in an attempt to
force them into a dramatic nale, in which one must kill the other to win. Katniss,
in an act of deance against the Capitol, retrieves highly poisonous berries known
as "nightlock" from her pouch and oers some to Peeta. Realizing that Katniss
and Peeta intend to commit suicide, the Gamemakers announce that both will be
the victors of the 74th Hunger Games.
Although she survives the ordeal in the arena and is treated to a hero's welcome
in the Capitol, Katniss is warned by Haymitch that she has now become a political
target after defying her society's authoritarian leaders so publicly. Afterwards,
Peeta is heartbroken when he learns that Katniss's actions in the arena were part
of a calculated ploy to earn sympathy from the audience. However, Katniss is
unsure of her own feelings and realizes that she is dreading the moment when she
and Peeta will go their separate ways.
Themes
In an interview with Collins, it was noted that the
novel "tackles issues like severe poverty,
starvation, oppression, and the eects of war
among others."
[6]
The novel deals with the
struggle for self-preservation that the people of
Panem face in their districts and the Hunger
Games in which they must participate.
[2]
The
citizens' starvation and their need for resources,
both in and outside of the arena, create an
atmosphere of helplessness that the main
characters try to overcome in their ght for
survival. Katniss needs to hunt to provide food for
her family, resulting in the development of skills
that are useful to her in the Games (such as her
prociency with the bow and arrow), and
represents her rejection of the Capitol's rules in
the face of life-threatening situations.
[7]
On the
subject of the Games' parallels with popular
culture, Darren Franich of Entertainment Weekly writes that the book "is an
incisive satire of reality television shows", and that the character of Cinna "almost
seems like a contestant on a fascist version of Project Runway, using Katniss'
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outts as a vehicle to express potentially dangerous ideas."
[8]
The choices the characters make and the strategies they use are often morally
complex. The tributes build a personality they want the audience to see
throughout the Games.
[7]
Library journal Voice of Youth Advocates names the
major themes of The Hunger Games as "government control, 'big brother', and
personal independence."
[9]
The trilogy's theme of power and downfall, similar to
that of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, was pointed out by its publisher
Scholastic.
[10]
Laura Miller of The New Yorker nds the author's stated premise
of the Games an exercise in propaganda and a "humiliating as well as torturous
[...] punishment" for a failed uprising against the Capitol many years earlier to
be unconvincing. "You don't demoralize and dehumanize a subject people by
turning them into celebrities and coaching them on how to craft an appealing
persona for a mass audience." But the story works much better if the theme is
vicissitudes of high school and "the adolescent social experience". Miller writes:
"The rules are arbitrary, unfathomable, and subject to sudden change. A
brutal social hierarchy prevails, with the rich, the good-looking, and the
athletic lording their advantages over everyone else. To survive you
have to be totally fake. Adults don't seem to understand how high the
stakes are; your whole life could be over, and they act like it's just some
"phase"! Everyone's always watching you, scrutinizing your clothes or
your friends and obsessing over whether you're having sex or taking
drugs or getting good enough grades, but no one cares who you really
are or how you really feel about anything."
[11]
Donald Brake from The Washington Times and pastor Andy Langford state that
the story has Christian themes, such as that of self-sacrice, which is found in
Katniss' substitution for her younger sister, analogous to the sacrice of Jesus as a
substitute for the atonement of sins.
[12][13]
Brake, as well as another reviewer,
Amy Simpson, both nd that the story also revolves around the theme of hope,
which is exemplied in the "incorruptible goodness of Katniss' sister,
Primrose."
[14]
Simpson also points to events similar to the Passion of Jesus; in the
Games, "Christ gure" Peeta Mellark is stabbed after warning Katniss to ee for
her life, and is then buried in the ground and placed in a cave for three days
before emerging with a new lease on life.
[14]
Further, she nds that the Christian
image of the Bread of Life is used throughout The Hunger Games; in the story,
Peeta gives Katniss a loaf of bread, saving the girl and her family from
starvation.
[14]
Publication history
After writing the novel, Collins signed a six-gure deal for three books with
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Scholastic in 2006. First published as a hardcover in the United States on
September 14, 2008, The Hunger Games had a rst printing of 50,000 copies,
which was bumped up twice to 200,000 copies.
[2]
By February 2010, the book had
sold 800,000 copies,
[15]
and rights to the novel had been sold in 38 territories
worldwide.
[15]
A few months later, in July, the book was released in paperback.
[16]
The Hunger Games entered the New York Times Best Seller list in
November 2008,
[17]
where it would feature for over 100 consecutive weeks.
[18]
By
the time the lm adaptation of The Hunger Games was released in March 2012,
the book had been on USA Today's best-sellers list for 135 consecutive weeks.
[19]
The novel is the rst in The Hunger Games trilogy; it is followed by sequels
Catching Fire (2009) and Mockingjay (2010). In March 2012, during the time of
The Hunger Games lm's release, Scholastic reported 26 million Hunger Games
trilogy books in print, including movie tie-in books.
[20]
The Hunger Games (and
also its sequels) have sold exceptionally well in ebook format. Suzanne Collins is
the rst children's or young adult author to sell over one million Amazon Kindle
ebooks, making her the sixth author to join the "Kindle Million Club".
[21]
In March
2012, Amazon announced that Collins had become the best-selling Kindle ebook
author of all time.
[22]
An audiobook version of The Hunger Games was released in December 2008.
Read by the actress Carolyn McCormick, it has a total running time of eleven
hours and fourteen minutes.
[23]
The magazine AudioFile said: "Carolyn
McCormick gives a detailed and attentive narration. However, she may rely too
much on the strength of the prose without providing the drama young adult
listeners often enjoy."
[24]
School Library Journal also praised the audiobook,
stating that "McCormick ably voices the action-packed sequences and Katniss's
every fear and strength shines through, along with her doomed growing
attraction to one of her fellow Tributes."
[25]
The Tim O'Brien-designed cover features a gold "mockingjay" a ctional bird in
The Hunger Games born by crossbreeding female mockingbirds and genetically
engineered male "jabberjays" with an arrow engraved in a circle. This is a
depiction of the pin worn by Katniss into the arena, given to her by the District 12
mayor's daughter, Madge Undersee.
[26]
The image matches the description of the
pin that is given in the novel, except for the arrow: "It's as if someone fashioned a
small golden bird and then attached a ring around it. The bird is connected to the
ring only by its wing tips."
[27]
Critical reception
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The Hunger Games has received critical acclaim. In a review for The New York
Times, John Green wrote that the novel was "brilliantly plotted and perfectly
paced", and that "the considerable strength of the novel comes in Collins's
convincingly detailed world-building and her memorably complex and fascinating
heroine." However, he also noted that, while allegorically rich, the book
sometimes does not realize the allegorical potential that the plot has to oer and
that the writing "described the action and little else."
[28]
Time magazine's review
was also positive, stating that it "is a chilling, bloody and thoroughly horrifying
book" and praising what it called the "hypnotic" quality of the violence.
[29]
In
Stephen King's review for Entertainment Weekly, he compared it to "shoot-it-if-
it-moves videogames in the lobby of the local eightplex; you know it's not real, but
you keep plugging in quarters anyway." However, he stated that there were
"displays of authorial laziness that kids will accept more readily than adults" and
that the love triangle was standard for the genre. He gave the book an overall B
grade.
[30]
Elizabeth Bird of School Library Journal praised the novel, saying it is
"exciting, poignant, thoughtful, and breathtaking by turns", and called it one of
the best books of 2008.
[31]
Booklist also gave a positive review, praising the
character violence and romance involved in the book.
[32]
Kirkus Reviews gave a
positive review, praising the action and world-building, but pointed out that "poor
copyediting in the rst printing will distract careful readersa crying shame".
[33]
Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, claims it is the
"closest thing to a perfect adventure novel" he has ever read.
[34]
Stephenie Meyer
(author of the Twilight series) endorsed the book on her website, saying, "I was so
obsessed with this book The Hunger Games is amazing."
[35]
The Hunger Games received many awards and honors. It was named one of
Publishers Weekly's "Best Books of the Year" in 2008
[36]
and a The New York
Times "Notable Children's Book of 2008".
[37]
It was the 2009 winner of the
Golden Duck Award in the Young Adult Fiction Category.
[38]
The Hunger Games
was also a "2008 Cybil Winner" for fantasy and science-ction books along with
The Graveyard Book,
[39]
one of School Library Journal's "Best Books 2008",
[40]
and a "Booklist Editors' Choice" in 2008.
[41]
In 2011, the book won the California
Young Reader Medal.
[42]
In the 2012 edition of Scholastic's Parent and Child
magazine, The Hunger Games was listed as the 33rd-best book for children, with
the award for "Most Exciting Ending".
[43][44]
The novel is one of the top 5 best
selling Kindle books of all time.
[45]
However, the novel has also been controversial
with parents;
[46]
it ranked in fth place on the American Library Association's list
of frequently challenged books for 2010, with "unsuited to age group" and
"violence" being among the reasons cited.
[47]
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Battle Royale controversy
The novel has been criticized for its similarities to the 1999 novel Battle Royale,
by Koushun Takami. Collins has stated, "I had never heard of that book or that
author until my book was turned in. At that point, it was mentioned to me, and I
asked my editor if I should read it. He said: 'No, I don't want that world in your
head. Just continue with what you're doing'." Susan Dominus of The New York
Times reports that "the parallels are striking enough that Collins's work has been
savaged on the blogosphere as a baldfaced ripo," but argued that "there are
enough possible sources for the plot line that the two authors might well have hit
on the same basic setup independently."
[48]
King noted that the reality TV
"badlands" were similar to Battle Royale, as well as his own The Running Man and
The Long Walk.
[30]
Eric Eisenberg wrote that The Hunger Games was "not a rip
o [of Battle Royale], but simply a dierent usage of a similar idea", pointing out
various dierences in both story and themes.
[49]
Robert Nishimura wrote that
"The Hunger Games has an entirely dierent set of cultural baggage ... Collins
just happened to tap in to the creative collective consciousness, drawing on ideas
that have played out many times before, in addition to her intentional reference to
Greek mythology."
[50]
Film adaptation
In March 2009, Lions Gate Entertainment entered into a co-production agreement
for The Hunger Games with Nina Jacobson's production company Color Force,
which had acquired worldwide distribution rights to the novel a few weeks earlier.
[51][52]
The studio, which had not made a prot for ve years, raided the budgets
of other productions and sold assets to secure a budget of $88,000,000 one of
its largest ever
[53]
for the lm.
[54][55]
Collins' agent Jason Dravis remarked that
"they [Lionsgate] had everyone but the valet call us" to help secure the
franchise.
[55]
Intending the lm to have a PG-13 rating,
[56]
Collins adapted the
novel for lm herself,
[51]
in collaboration with screenwriter Billy Ray and director
Gary Ross.
[57][58]
The screenplay remains extremely faithful to the original
novel,
[59]
with Ross saying he "felt the only way to make the lm really successful
was to be totally subjective" in its presentation of events, echoing Collins' use of
rst person present in the novel.
[60]
Twenty-year-old actress Jennifer Lawrence was chosen to play Katniss
Everdeen.
[61]
Though Lawrence was four years older than the character when
lming began,
[62]
Collins felt the role demanded "a certain maturity and power"
and said she would rather the actress be older than younger.
[63]
She added that
Lawrence was the "only one who truly captured the character I wrote in the book"
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and that she had "every essential quality necessary to play Katniss."
[64]
Lawrence,
a fan of the books, took three days to accept the role, initially intimidated by the
size of the production.
[65][66]
Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth were later
added to the cast, in the roles of Peeta and Gale, respectively.
[67][68]
Production
began in late spring 2011
[69]
and the lm was released on March 23, 2012.
[70]
The lm's opening weekend brought in a non-sequel record $152.5 million (USD)
in North America.
[71]
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, based on the second
novel in the series, was released the following year on November 22, 2013.
[72]
See also
The Condemned
Crypteia
The Most Dangerous Game
Series 7: The Contenders
The Lottery
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External links
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Suzanne Collins's ocial website (http://www.suzannecollinsbooks.com/)
Scholastic Ocial Site (http://www.scholastic.com/thehungergames/)
The Hunger Games on Google Books (http://books.google.com
/books?id=hlb_sM1AN0gC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+hunger+games&
hl=en&src=bmrr&ei=EJN9TZqwEomEtge_-aG6BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&
ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false)
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