TABLE OF CONTENTS The Hunger Games Companion:
Chapter 1. The Hunger Games Trilogy:
Surviving the End of the World
Chapter 2. Repressive Regimes and Rebellions:
Could The Hunger Games Really Happen?
Chapter 3. Hunger: Starving in the Districts
Chapter 4. Tributes: Gladiators in the Arena
Chapter 5. Weapons: How Tributes Survive
Chapter 6. Torture and Execution: What a Way to Go
Chapter 7. The Nature of Evil: President Snow and His Cronies
Chapter 8. Killer Kids: How Responsible are They?
Chapter 9. Hype Over Substance: A Mirror of Modern Times
Chapter 10. Theseus and the Minotaur: Parallels
Chapter 11. Survival Instincts and Strategies:
Does Katniss Know What She's Doing?
Chapter 12. Medicines and Poisons: Simple and Complex
Chapter 13. Muttations and Other Hybrids:
Birds, Beasts, and Roses
Chapter 14. More Weird Science: A Brief Roundup
Appendix A End-of-the-World Scenarios
Appendix B Apocalyptic and Dystoptian Post-Apocalyptic Fiction:
Further Reading