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"Much has been written about the underlying message ofThe Hunger Games, and how the inspiration for the dystopian Young Adult novel series came from the author Suzanne Collins flipping through TV channels between a reality television show and news footage of the war in Iraq. From this beginning, Ms. Collins delivered a series that has captured the imaginations of readers both young and old with a theme as ancient as war itself: offering up a nation's young as lambs to slaughter."
