Movie Essay: The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins

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In my essay, Movies, Books, and Entertainment, I’m going to be describing the book, The Hunger Games, also the movie with it, and to top it off, I’m going to add in my favorite Disney Movie. Lilo And Stitch. The Hunger Games, which was written by Suzanne Collins, was an incredible book. The Hunger Games was based off Post Apocalyptic times, when people are starving, and population is being controlled. The story also takes place in Panem, a city in North America. The country consists of twelve (originally thirteen) districts which surround the famous, wealthy and spoiled, Capitol City. There, people are free to eat as much, and do as they please. They live in fancy houses, and wear fancy clothes. It is the city of the rich. Depending on which

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