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Alex Arancibia _lex_rancibia — The Hunger Games is set in an unspecified future time when things have gone pretty spectacularly badly for humanity. The world, or the bit of it we can see, is dominated by a ruling caste who live in luxury in a city called the Capitol. The rest of them live like peasants in 12 districts that are strictly cordoned off from the Capitol and one another. Life in the districts sucks: it's mostly hard labor--mining coal and farming and working in factories--in bad conditions. To make things even worse, once a year each district is required to give up two of its children, chosen by lottery/raffle, and enter them in the Hunger Games. The kids are dropped into an enormous arena covered with traps and hazards, with a pile of weapons and supplies in the middle. The last child alive wins a lifetime of luxury and celebrity. The action is filmed and broadcast to the entire world. We experience this ordeal through the eyes of Katniss, a resident of District 12, a harsh, cold region mostly given over to coal-mining. She is a passionate 16-year-old who hates the Capitol and is devoted to her family; she volunteers for the Games to take the place of her sister, whose name came up in the lottery. Katniss is a skilled hunter and sheer death with a bow and arrow. She doesn't like to kill. But she doesn't want to die either. So Katniss tries her hardest to survive and make it back to her family, she succeeds at this by fake falling in love with the other tribute from district 12 Peeta, so that they can both get home safely. when both of them survive they start a accidental revolution against the capitol.

Jonathan Azeredo jonazeredo — I am reminded to post about this book after reading _Outliers_ by Malcolm Gladwell today. Outlier's Chapters 4 & 9 especially deal with the similar subject of the gates to success. Here's part of what I wrote about Sacks' book on my blog runspotrun.com: In his book Tearing down the gates: Confronting the class divide in American education, Peter Sacks thoroughly documents how much more difficult it is for low-income students to get the best out of school and from there get to the best colleges. He offers some ideas for helping the system change. Probably to win over those who expect it, Sacks does update the age-old international and economic competition argument as an incentive to change, but the reader senses that down-deep he believes the incentive is a simpler, and dare I say moral, one: we are all better off when we are each well-enough off.