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Hunger Games Trilogy Research Paper

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Kaylin Blazic
18 May 2015
Jason Wymore
English 112
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The Hunger Games Trilogy
With 4.3 million copies sold in 2010, The Hunger Games Trilogy’s fame tripled after the first film went to theaters in 2012. A shocking 27.7 million copies having been sold worldwide. (Bitoun, Rachel Elfassy) The Hunger Games has something more, something precisely defined throughout the series that was Suzanne Collins’s, the author’s, main reason to writing The Hunger Games Trilogy. The series popularity increased because it was portrayed as good versus evil, thus pulling readers left to right. Along with Katniss Everdeen displaying her love and strength to stand up for what was right to save her district throughout each book. The Hunger Games
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The other two books, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay were released in September 2009 and August 2010. After the release of the books, The Hunger Games Trilogy was in the New York Times Bestseller list for over sixty weeks back to back. After the success of the books, they began to film the novels in Spring 2011. With 4.3 million copies sold in 2010, it’s fame tripled after the first film went to theaters in 2012, a shocking 27.7 million copies having been sold worldwide. (Bitoun, Rachel Elfassy) But what made the trilogy so popular? It was that it clearly portrays good and evil. Suzanne made it easy for the reader to see that she made the youths in the games either all good, or all evil.(Challies, Tim) “Children who read the books are seeing pure evil doing battle with pure good and enjoying that contrast. It is so clear, so unconfusing, so real.” (Challies, Tim) These books create such a popular and good story because they follow a good and effective arrangement, with a story about good versus evil that grabs the reader’s attention. Suzanne Collins wrote the series, The Hunger Games Trilogy. She said that the Trilogy was mostly inspired by her father’s Air Force career. His career helped her understand what poverty, the effects of the war, and starvation were. And with that, she started writing the
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