ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Thomas Hobbes
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Doesn"t seem to be any decent adult. Katniss more worried about prim not her mother. Children are forced to embody adults partake in war, get the food, take care of younger siblings: there is no childhood. First person narrative allow to see more than katniss does. Parents don"t want to be too invested in children that could die at any point. Adults survival depend on child"s death (cid:523)tesserae(cid:524) Readers able to notice things katniss doesn"t. Enable to take part as katniss struggles with her identities. Need to come up with story to present her to capitol. Critique present and function against romantic ideal. Has a ray of hope (cid:498)children are our future(cid:499) Pane et circenses only care about bread and the games. Squeezing of middle class chances of child being picked not as large. Racism reading with privileged districts as white. Capitol doesn"t see as children killing them but savages killing them.
