The Hunger Games Rhetorical Analysis

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What would make you choose to be selfish, or make you choose a right decision for the wrong reason?The author of The Hunger Games,Suzanne Collins, believes that even a right decision if contrived for the wrong reasons can be a wrong decision and we should choose right over wrong and be selfless for the right reasons. She conveys this when Katniss chooses to love Peeta, to keep her and family safe even if it channels breaking his heart. On page 32 it states,¨I feel like I owe him something, and I hate owing people. Maybe if I thanked him at some point, I´d be feeling less conflicted now” (Collins 32). This means that she should have been obliged so she wouldn’t think she owes him.Suzanne Collins is trying to say that you should do the right

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