Hunger Games
The Fear and disconnect with Nature
Book Quotes:
"As long as you can find yourself you'll never starve" (Collins 52).
"Even though trespassing in the woods is illegal and poaching carries the severest of penalties, more people would risk it if they had weapons" (Collins 5).
Weapons
Avatar
- The land in Avatar is unexplored
- The humans feared it
- When entering they had always brought weapons
Forests
- Common archetype for fear and the Unknown
- become sparse
"...95 percent of this realm remains unexplored, unseen by human eyes." (NOAA)
"The world’s rain forests could completely vanish in a hundred years at the current rate of deforestation." (National Geographic).
CITATIONS
Winters, Jeffery. "Why We Fear the Unknown." Psychology Today: Health, Help, Happiness + Find a Therapist. Sussex Publishers, LCC, 01 May 2002. Web. 02 Apr. 2014.
"To Date, We Have Explored Less than Five Percent of the Ocean." How Much of the Ocean Have We Explored? NOAA, 11 Jan. 2013. Web. 02 Apr. 2014.
Collins, Suzanne, and Phil Falco. The Hunger Games. New York: Scholastic, 2008. Print.
"Deforestation." National Geographic. National Geographic Society, 1996. Web. 02 April. 2014.