What is the strongest parallel you see between the events of The Hunger Games and our society or history?

Pick one of the following questions to answer: What is the strongest parallel you see between the events of The Hunger Games and our society or history? Do you find any comparisons to events that have been part of your own life? (Collins has already written about how the Romans influenced her writing this book. The question I pose is not asking for that parallel. The question is asking for a new, not thought of yet parallel.) Violence as entertainment plays a large part in The Hunger Games, and the novel itself is both violent and entertaining. What shocked you most about the book? What important points do you think the author makes about violence and its effects on society? Violence in the media? Violence and children? The adults in this book seem to be very flawed. Why do you think Collins portrays them this way? Katniss’s mother is one of the most important—do you think Katniss is too hard on her? What about other adults Katniss encounters? In a book about moral choices, God and religion never appear. Do you think they should have? What do you think are the book’s most religious elements? hunger games book: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=c21jc3R1ZGVudHMuY2F8bXItbGFsb25kZS1zLWNsYXNzfGd4OmNiOWE1MjhlZDk5ZWEwYg