The Hunger Games series was a large part of literary and cinema culture in America when it first came out, but why was it so successful?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The real reason ‘Hunger Games’ has captured public imagination is that its fictional world of Panem is, in so many ways, an extreme version of our own America. For those who have not seen the movies or read the books, the ‘Hunger Games’ tells the story of a young woman \u2013 Lawrence\u2019s Katniss Everdeen \u2013 and her defiance of her society\u2019s wealthy, exploitative ruling elite. These elite, the dastardly ‘Capitol,’ reinforce their power by making the children of oppressed regions battle to the death in what are called ‘Hunger Games'” (Jones, 2014).<\/p>\n\n\n\n