tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4186243171131934995.post6446849157264368832..comments2023-12-18T08:49:46.733-05:00Comments on LAURIE LC LEWIS: A VIEW FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HILL: LESSONS FROM "THE HUNGER GAMES"Laurie LC Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11642055237160385791noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4186243171131934995.post-10980214487080247472012-03-29T23:11:09.081-04:002012-03-29T23:11:09.081-04:00Thanks so much for your comment, Lisa. The release...Thanks so much for your comment, Lisa. The release of the movie has triggered what I suppose is a second wave of questions about the book's underlying themes, and I supposed only the author could speak to those. I appreciate your position. Sometimes we just need to let a book be a book. Thanks for weighing in.Laurie LC Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11642055237160385791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4186243171131934995.post-20155876709393850222012-03-29T22:37:02.250-04:002012-03-29T22:37:02.250-04:00Just wait until you read the rest of the trilogy. ...Just wait until you read the rest of the trilogy. Although you can expect to have all your maternal buttons ruthlessly pushed to the bitter end.<br /><br />One comment, I hope Ms. Collins never tells us if this was an intended 'message' book. It would sort of ruin it for me. Sometimes a writer has an idea and just runs with it. There are messages in this book, but I like to think they were an unintentional byproduct.Lisa Swintonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13379546805837841144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4186243171131934995.post-65282337942164097062012-03-29T22:34:21.034-04:002012-03-29T22:34:21.034-04:00Just wait until you read the rest of the trilogy.....Just wait until you read the rest of the trilogy...<br /><br />You have alot of excellent comments in here. I only want to remark on one of them. You wondered if Ms.Collins had a hidden agenda. I hope we never know. Sometimes a writer has an idea and runs with it without an agenda. I hope that's where this one came from. It would sort of ruin it for me if she wrote it as a 'message' book, even though there are several messages within.Lisa Swintonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13379546805837841144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4186243171131934995.post-71167921332777695982012-03-29T15:50:07.817-04:002012-03-29T15:50:07.817-04:00I loved reading your perspective, Laurie. Thank yo...I loved reading your perspective, Laurie. Thank you for sharing. I, too, was both mesmerized and horrified by the books. I've finished the entire series, so don't read my review http://www.allarminda.com/the-hunger-games-trilogy-a-review/ until then (spoilers), but you may enjoy my review of the movie http://www.allarminda.com/the-hunger-games-movie-review/, which really impressed me with its adaptation.allarmindahttp://www.allarminda.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4186243171131934995.post-58612863037519349162012-03-29T12:13:03.280-04:002012-03-29T12:13:03.280-04:00Thanks for posting, Chris. "The Hunger Games&...Thanks for posting, Chris. "The Hunger Games" is book one of a trilogy, and having not read the other two I can't say whether hope beams brightly at the end, but I'm glad to know that many of these dystopian novels are being written by laudable LDS authors who mirror Gospel themes, pitting good against evil where goodness and hope do triumph. I can't speak to the rest of the genre. Like you, I perfer stories to end with hope.<br /><br />I volunteered at the Middle School library some years ago and the Librarian told me the most popular books amongst that age group were "the death books"--books where someone close to the main character, or the main characters themselves, were dying. At that age, youth were beginning to grapple with the realization that bad things happen to good people, and these books were somehow cathartic. Perhaps that's the appeal of these dystopian novels. Perhaps a completely broken, corrupt society makes ours appear more bright and redeemable in the end, giving relief to the readers. Who knows? <br /><br />Thanks again for the comment. I'm going to pull the covers up closer to my chin now.Laurie LC Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11642055237160385791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4186243171131934995.post-59092142851443772322012-03-29T10:52:49.963-04:002012-03-29T10:52:49.963-04:00Thank you for your thoughtful comments. I haven&#...Thank you for your thoughtful comments. I haven't ventured into "Hunger Games" territory as yet. Now, I'm not so sure I want to. <br /><br />The older I get, the less I want to read about the ugly underbelly of society, however fictionalized. I accept the need to be warned about the potential for disaster. I prefer to find that warning in other sources.<br /><br />While I love the fantasy/science fiction genre, I increasingly tend to compare current books to the classics (Tolkien and CS Lewis) and, at least for me, they come up wanting. <br /><br />So often now, the "dark" stays dark, never giving way to the "light". Lessons aren't learned, people fail to rise above their circumstances to the nobility of a Frodo or an Edmund. Heros are fatally flawed in the name of "realism."<br />Boy, I am I sounding grim. Maybe this doesn't describe "The Hunger Games" in which case, ignore all of the above. :-)Chris Calkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02812939240605722186noreply@blogger.com