Opinion | Ani Bundel: 'Hunger Games' prequel paints a disappointingly sympathetic portrait of patriarchy. - NBCNewsTHINK
. Some people read it as a parable about government overreach — others saw in it a warning about growing income inequality.
Some of the exposition will feel familiar — once again, there is a plucky heroine from District 12, named Lucy Gray, who turns the games upside down. But whereas Katniss' celebrity was an accident, Lucy is a natural in the spotlight. These being only the 10th annual Hunger Games, Lucy finds herself starring in a snuff show that hasn't yet recognized its reality TV potential. Her revolution isn't one to bring down those in power but to show how they can reinforce it.story.
In this new work, Snow is a literal"poor little rich boy"; his family reads like a character out of the British aristocracy in the years following World War I. Many of the descriptions are given over to his constant worries about food and the family's penny pinching. Every interaction is filled with anxious thoughts as he fights to keep up his charming facade.
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