These novels could suggest many things about the United States in the year 2016. For example, the effect of popular culture in the society that Collins created versus today’s society. Harmon describes “popular culture” as “The phenomenon of what people really but unofficially do and say,” (Harmon 372). The idea presented by Suzanne Collins in, The Hunger Games feeds the idea of popular culture. The game makers would control many of the elements. People from the Capitol would take excitement from it. And the people from the districts would mourn those they were losing from their own communities. In today’s society, people enjoy watching other people compete in life and death situations. They enjoy violence and suspense. Just as those who watched
