This book tells the story that North America was destroyed after the Great War and a new country was established on the ruins of the United States. However, in order to consolidate political power, the state stipulates that twelve regions under its jurisdiction must pay tribute to a young man and a woman every year. As fair twenty-four people, they should participate in a live TV program "Hunger Games". The rule is to put these 24 people in a huge arena and let them kill each other. Only one will survive in the end. The game is over, leaving only the hero and heroine. The heroine's skill is higher than that of the hero. He could have killed the hero, but she chose to eat poisonous berries at the same time as the hero. But the official miraculously changed the rules, and both the hero and heroine survived and returned to their hometown.
Although The Hunger Games is an illusory science fiction novel, I have read a lot of comments about The Hunger Games, and feel that the Hunger Games is not the epitome of human society.
Isn't human history a hunger game? Throughout human history, there is only one thing that human beings have been doing, and that is survival. In order to survive, they have to compete and kill each other to survive. In order to compete for wealth, resources and energy, social disputes and wars continue. Such competition has been deeply hidden in people's subconscious since ancient times. () It has been a legal behavior for a long time, but it just keeps changing forms. This competition may never disappear.
The hunger game itself is a show, and every tribute will be packaged, publicized and hyped to meet the audience's "entertainment" requirements. After the heroine entered the city, the author kept writing about the warm atmosphere, the clapping audience kept appearing, and the abnormal condition and darkness in people's hearts.