The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games is a 2008 science fiction novel by American writer Suzanne Collins. It is the first of several books in a series with the same title. A film adaptation was released in March 2012.

Writing from a White Nationalist perspective for Counter-Currents, Gregory Hood chided the film version of the novel for its conventional Hollywood portrayal of race, but posited that appeal of The Hunger Games "suggests a deep seated disgust at the heart of the American psyche, particularly that of whites." On the parallel between the ruling class in the world of the novel and ours, Hood observed that "Rather than Nazis or even old school Communists, the oppressive Capitol society seems composed of liberal arts graduate students, part time workers at feminist bookstores in Portland, and a sprinkling of the wealthier members of Occupy Wall Street."