**edited 01/27/14 
 In some ways, I thought that Hunger Games itself had the perfect ending: the beginning of discontent, a breath of hope, and a massive amount of uncertainty. But since a pair of sequels had been written, I felt obliged to read them, even though I was afraid they would damage what I saw as the perfect way the first book had such devastating impact. Although Catching Fire is indeed a compelling story, I found some of its elements distinctly problematic. 
 One of the aspects I found to be so overwhelming about the Hunger Games was the faceless forces of the antagonists. The pain created was created not through hatred or anger, but through arrogance, through indifference, through a sort of impersonal maliciousness. This message resonated deeply with me because we live in a world where our reality shows have this same faceless audience who derive amusement from the detached observation of the pain and misery of others. The power for me here was the way we must question how the quest for entertainment and novelty dehumanizes the pain of others and how this indifference can, in some ways, be more horrific than actual malevolence. 
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