No place like home

....to read the Hunger Games!

Whether you feel like curling up by the fire or escaping the chaos for a while, here are some questions to ponder as you read:

1. In the book, how do television and technology control people and/or information? How does it shape "truth" or "knowledge"? Who is closer to the truth -- Katniss and the others in the arena or the game makers in their control room? Is there something inherent in the technology that means it skews the truth somehow, or is technology a neutral force, employed in a morally suspect manner? 
2. What sort of fulfillment do citizens of Panem (especially the Capitol) seem to get out of watching the Hunger Games? We are all often compelled by images/stories of disaster and death.  What compels us about these images/stories? Does hearing about them/watching them fulfill any social role for us as a community? Is death (someone else’s, our own) necessary to give clarity to life?

Wishing you all a little silver parachute full of the thing you need most.