Sermo Dei: Good Friday 2012—Hunger Games and the Happy Exchange
Posted on April 6th, 2012
Many of you have read The Hunger Games trilogy, or seen the movie based on the first book. I haven’t seen the movie, but that’s on my list for after Easter Sunday. For those of you who haven’t read the book, it is set in a post-apocalypse America, the country being renamed Panem – Latin for “bread.” But bread is in short supply. A small group of elites lives prosperously in the capital city, while the people of the twelve districts are slaves of the state. Every year two children, a boy and a girl, are chosen from each district to compete in the Hunger Games, where the 24 contestants kill each other until only one is left. Now this isn’t the sort…
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