Why do The Hunger Games' books still matter?
( English ) There are books we read and movies we watched as teenagers that we remember fondly. And then there are books we read as teenagers that we eventually grow into and see in a completely different light. For us, The Hunger Games belongs firmly in the second category. We first discovered Suzanne Collins' dystopian trilogy when we were teenagers, at a time when the story of Panem felt like exactly what it was supposed to feel like: terrifying, brutal and completely impossible. A country divided into districts. A government that controls everything. Children forced to kill each other being turned into entertainment. A population kept obedient through fear, propaganda and deprivation. Back then, it was dystopia. Now, almost two decades after the first book was published, we're not quite sure it feels as distant anymore. We didn't know we were reading a warning When The Hunger Games was published in 2008, the story quickly became a worldwide phenomenon. The orig...
