The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Struggle

What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? How would I spend the hours I now commit to combing the woods for sustenance if it were so easy to come by? What do they do all day, these people in the Capitol, besides decorating their bodies and waiting around for a new shipment of tributes to roll in and die for their entertainment." p65

Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena. p354


Prejudice 

"How you've both successfully struggled to overcome the barbarism of your district." p74

Government/ Control

"But I don't want them to! They're already taking my future! They can't have the things that mattered to me in the past!" p117

We stand for the anthem. I have to raise my head out of the required respect..." p134

"No, when the time comes, I'm sure I'll kill just like everybody else. I can't go down without a fight. Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to... to show the Capitol they don't own me. That I'm more than just a piece of their Games," says Peeta. p142

In fact, I wonder if the Gamemakers are blocking out our conversation, because even though the information seems harmless, they don't want people in different districts to know about one another. p203

To hate the boy from District 1, who also appears so vulnerable in death, seems inadequate. It's the Capitol I hate, for doing this to all of us. p236

Trauma

Because if he dies, I'll never go home, not really. I'll spend the rest of my life in this arena trying to think my way out. p343

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