Suzanne Collins has talked about her inspiration for the novel long before the movie was even a gleam in the producers' eye. She talked about the media (more on that in a bit), but she also discu...

More than anything else, The Hunger Games is about the media: what it shows us, what it hides from us and how it can be used to make the most horrible things seem commonplace. In that sense, it isn...

It doesn't seem like much really, just a bow and a quiver full of arrows. But to Katniss, it's the key to survival. She goes hunting with her bow in District 12, heading out past the electric fence...

The mockingjay is a work of genius: a symbol not only of Katniss, but of her defiance against the government. The mockingjay represents a paradox: attempts to control something can have consequence...