The Hunger Games: The Archive

Let’s do one last post before the holidays to archive the Hunger Games posts I’ve done over the years:

• I just did a post where I annotated the first twelve pages, then I did four follow-ups:
• Rulebook Casefile: The “Drown the Cat” Intro in “The Hunger Games”
• Storyteller’s Rulebook: Get to the Premise Quickly (Even if It Means Skipping Some Set-Up)
• Storyteller’s Rulebook: Juxtapose the Melodramatic with the Mundane
• Rulebook Casefile: How “The Hunger Games” Fills the Reader In on What’s Going On

But I had lots of posts before that as well (and most of them were a lot more critical than my recent posts):

• I talked about how the book gratifies our dark urges (and the discussion continued in the comments)
• I got in a discussion about The Monotonous Intensity Problem
• I talked about how the story has a problem with presenting obstacles rather than conflicts.
• I talked about how the book cleverly takes a classic myth and regrows it from a seed.
• I talked about how Collins paid her dues.
• And I talked about how Katniss’s callousness goes too far.