Blog #8

I thought Hunger Games was an interesting read. While I don’t believe we’ll reach a point where we’re watching people essentially fight to the death, I think the ridiculousness of the hunger games kinda resembles some of the traditions we have today. I was pretty intrigued by Katniss' decision to form an alliance with Rue, I feel that if I were in the games and one of my enemies resembled a family member, or even friend, I would have a difficult time contemplating whether or not to kill them. Throughout the book I also wondered, if placed in that circumstance, if I could be in a relationship similar to that of Katniss' and Peeta's, a relationship built on a series of lies that must be kept up in order to ensure my survival.  The plot itself actually reminded me of the movie The Condemned, which is also about a last man standing fight to the death type of thing, with millions paying to watch it through the internet. As a whole, all of the books we’ve read so far portrait societies in which its people do what their told, they do things that their society consider norms, and they all do it without ever questioning what the significance or what the true purpose of it all is.