McStudent 1

Fakey McStudent

Mr. Thompson

9th Literature—254th Period

1 October 2010

Frequently Asked Questions About The Hunger Games

  1. Who is Suzanne Collins?
  2. How have the critics treatedThe Hunger Games series?
  3. How is the society that she creates a dystopia?

Who is Suzanne Collins?

Suzanne Collins is a popular contemporary author. Collins was born in New Jersey, but she now works and resides in Connecticut with her husband Cap. Though Collins began her career as a writer for television series such as Clarissa Explains it All, she has earned much renown for her work on the Underland Chronicles and The Hunger Games series. The Hunger Games series is her latest work, and the third and final installment, Mockingjay, was released to an excited public in August 2010.

"Suzanne Collins." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Literature Resource

Center. Web. 2 Dec. 2010.

How have the critics treated The Hunger Games series?

The Hunger Games series is wildly popular. Roiphe writes, “Though the Hunger Gamestrilogy has by now won many adult readers—there are 5.6 million copies of the series in print in the United States and Canada—it is the perfect teenage story with its exquisitely refined rage against the cruel and arbitrary power of the adult world” (1). The sheer numbers that have been bought make it a hit with the general public, and the exciting way Collins addresses cruelty of the adult word has won many professional critics.

Roiphe, Katie. "Survivor." The New York Times Book Review 12 Sept. 2010: 12(L). Literature

Resource Center. Web. 2 Dec. 2010.

How is The Hunger Games a dystopia?

Collins creates a world with a tyrannical government that controls its citizens through fear and hunger. Meanwhile, the people of the capitol live a charmed and ostentatious lifestyle on the enslaved backs of district citizens. In addition, the Capitol maintains control by sickeningly forcing children from the enslaved districts to fight to the death each year in order to dissuade any thoughts of rebellion. A society with a totalitarian government, rampant hunger, and murder for entertainment is clearly dystopian.

Blasingame, James. "The Hunger Games." Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 52.8 (2009):

724+. Literature Resource Center. Web. 2 Dec. 2010.

Works Cited

Blasingame, James. "The Hunger Games." Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 52.8 (2009):

724+. Literature Resource Center. Web. 2 Dec. 2010.

Roiphe, Katie. "Survivor." The New York Times Book Review 12 Sept. 2010: 12(L). Literature

Resource Center. Web. 2 Dec. 2010.

"Suzanne Collins." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Literature Resource

Center. Web. 2 Dec. 2010.