"The Hunger Games" and Reality

T-Chart

As you listen, please add notes in the two columns.

Fact, Question, Response

Use this organizer to keep track of your thoughts as you listen to the audio story. In the "Fact" column, record interesting or useful factual information you learn about the topic. In the "Question" column, write questions that occur to you as you listen. Finally, in the "Response" column, make a list of responses to the story, either as they occur to you or in relation to one of the facts or questions you’ve listed.

Language Identification

Listen closely and check off each phrase as you hear it.

• audiences look for comparisons between the fictitious world of Panem and the real world.
• I'm looking for tropes and ideas that are going to leap out of the film into public life
• the nation of Panem itself with it's deep wealth inequalities
• all of these things have not only leapt into the public imagination, but they are regular features of political argument.
• I think partly people will attach to this whatever they want to attach to it
• I found people who say, if you look at Panem, you see something about the dangers of climate change.
• People will certainly map onto Panem the stories that they themselves want to tell.
• Katniss has been adopted as a hero by protesters on the left, by protesters on the right.
• create symbols that are so attractive to people and so leap out of their context that people want to adopt them
• in a small town in Thailand last month, we saw three students who were arrested after protesting last spring's military coup by flashing the three-finger salute that's the symbol of District 12, Katniss's district
• protesters in various parts of the world who not only wear t-shirts with Hunger Games slogans, but also have begun to use that three-finger salute as a symbol of protest
• Dystopian novels always tend to feature a disaster followed by the good guys versus the bad guys
• we live in a political era where people on the left think everyone on the right is evil, and people on the right think everyone on the left is evil.
• it fits perfectly with the general design of the dystopian story.

Fill in the Blank

As you listen to the story, fill in the blank in each sentence below with the word or phrase that fits best.

• I'm looking for and ideas that are going to leap out of the film into public life.
• Are people just seeing things when they see between Panem and the real world, or do you think there's something there?
• Suzanne Collins, the author of “The Hunger Games,” has managed to create that are so attractive to people and so leap out of their context that people want to adopt them.
• You see protesters in various parts of the world who not only wear t-shirts with Hunger Games , but also have begun to use that three-fingered salute as a symbol of protest.
• There's a to paint our enemies as larger than life.