Let Us Begin.

The first book of Suzanne Collins' trilogy, The Hunger Games was gifted to me by a friend on my 16th birthday, and it has stuck with me since then. I devoured it in a night and was struck by the injustice doled out to the people in the lower class districts - mainly to those in 12 which is where our heroine Katniss Everdeen lives.
Children are left to starve in these lower districts as they have only grain and roots to live on. When we travel with Katniss on her way to the Capitol we see the poverty in other districts and how it compares to wealth and over consumption of the higher districts and the Capitol itself. 

The division of class is only too clear in these books, and it is only too reminiscent of real life. This is one of those books where the line between fiction and reality begin to blur in an unsettling away. The idea that the wealthy has it all and the lower classes struggling in poverty rings only too clear.

Food is one of the main classifiers of class and social standing, and I hope to show in my blog posts how the people of the districts were able to create dishes with what they had and the food they were able to find. And I also want to ask and answer some important questions such as;
- What is the function of food in these texts?
- How does food relate to survival?
- How important is hunting for survival?
- How does food tie into the novels?
- What is food like in different districts?
- Does Young Adult literature have a different response to food?

May the odds be ever in my favour!