The Hunger Games is an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle royale to the death. The book received critical acclaim from major reviewers and authors.

Development. In March 2009, Lions Gate Entertainment (known as Lionsgate) entered into a co-production agreement for The Hunger Games with Nina Jacobson's production company Color Force, which had acquired worldwide distribution rights to the novel a few weeks earlier, reportedly for $200,000.

Why The Hunger Games Happened & Why They Lasted For So Long. Dr. Gaul believed that the Hunger Games were the perfect tool to remind the Districts and the Capitol of the devastation of war. She believed that Highbottom's idea of forcing children to fight to the death reflected humanity's basic impulses.

Based a 2008 novel, the 2012 film The Hunger Games featured school kids who were forced to enter a deadly game in which they had to kill each other. The Hunger Games' writer, Suzanne Collins, said that the book was based on the Greek myth of Theseus and Minotaur.

It's called the Hunger Games because during the rebellion, the rebels held the food-producing districts to starve the Capitol, resulting in people in the Capitol resorting to cannibalism to survive.

The Hunger Games shows how sacrifice can show true humanity and emotion in a time where there is a lack of it. In the book children are chosen to be forced to fight to the death and in the story Katniss chooses to do this in place of her sister potentially sacrificing her life.

The Hunger Games (film series)

North Carolina In fact, the first Hunger Games movie was shot entirely in North Carolina, in towns like Asheville, Barnardsville, Black Mountain, Cedar Mountain, Charlotte, Concord, Hildebran, and Shelby.

Originally Answered: Why is it called the "Hunger Games"? Because they are competing to win food for their families and their district. The Capitol uses food as a mechanism of power and control over the people in the districts, who have very little and are starving.

Katniss dedicates her entire life to looking after her family. This presents a recurring theme of self-sacrifice for something you care about, something you want to protect to the point of risking your life/happiness for if needed.

While the story is fictional, it reminds us of a lot of the issues surrounding economic inequality we see today. Some sobering facts: Nearly all - 95% - of the income gains from 2009–2012 have been captured by the wealthiest 1%.

Answer and Explanation: The key idea in The Hunger Games is how violence can be used to control a people. President Snow uses the Hunger Games as a way to remind the districts of their helplessness, while also feeding his constituents' unceasing appetite for entertainment.