The Hunger Games
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The Hunger Games Question
Why do you think that Suzanne Collins left the history of Panem and the previous Games so ambiguous and open ended?
As we all well know, Suzanne Collins does not go into a lot of detail about the Dark Days or the previous Hunger Games. Sure, we know the victors out of some of them thanks to Catching Fire, but while we know about the 50th Quarter Quell, I don't remember any mention of the 25th (the first) Quarter Quell, nor do we ever get any information about the very first Hunger Games, and obviously that's something that's gong to be very big in the History of the Games, and it's strange that the Capitol would never look back on them every Quell, making it much more like the Game Show that it is. I find it somewhat annoying because while it would be nice to know how every Hunger Games went up to the 74th, I wouldn't want all of them , yet I'd still like to know certain things about them. One of the popular questions about the Trilogy is why it's called the Hunger Games at all, and one of the answers was that we don't know just how many people have actually died of hunger in the Games, and this is where it would be nice to have some historical context to look back on and investigate. What is more, when it comes to the Dark Days and the Great War, I find this to be the most annoying of all not because we don't know what exaclty happened, but because we don't know what happened to the rest of the world. This is where Dystopia gets a little effy simply because the author dosen't want to take the time to mention 'While this is happening here, in this country, this is happened' or something like that; one question that often floats around is why other countries haven't intervened in this, because America, as much as people dislike it, is a leading nation and if it just goes off the grid, people are going to ask questions. Also, how long has President Snow been president exactly? I mean the guys pretty old, and I could probably see him being old enough to have sustained 74 Hunger Games, but that would put him at least in his 90s, no condition to be president at all; so would it not be
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