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Explain Why The Hunger Games Should Not Be Banned

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Dear, Schoolboard Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins published in 2008 stars Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, Haymitch, Effie Trinket, and lastly the cold President Snow is a book that takes place in the future in Panem(North America). The basic plot is that 12 districts are kept in famine and total distress by the Capitol’s leader President Snow. Every year they are forced to send 2 tributes from each district one boy and one girl in a winner takes all death match to keep the districts feel inferior to the capital. Many teachers say that the Hunger games should not be banned due to a great many lessons and morals that can be taught through the reading of the Hunger Games. I say otherwise Hunger Games should be banned from the shelves of schools, because of the extremely graphic violence, the excessive consumption of alcohol, and the great presence of anti- family practices portrayed by Katniss Everdeen throughout the beginning of the book. …show more content…

Throughout the Games the author provides the reader with vivid detail of the deaths of many of the participants to the the detail that is not appropriate to many readers. As seen on page 212 “Rue was brutally speared in front of my own eyes, and I watched the life drain out of her eyes.” As well seen on pg 233 “ He falls to his knees and halves the brief remainder of his life by yanking out the arrow and drowning in his own blood.” As seen by the quotes above the author provides the reader with an excessively graphic image portraying a level of violence that should not be accepted in the books teens read in

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