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“Real or Not Real?”: How The Hunger Games is unlike real-life warfare

“Real or Not Real?”: How The Hunger Games is unlike real-life warfare

by Shruthi Selvarajan | May 24, 2023 | Hunger Games, longer reads, Society

War veteran, Paul K Chappell, explains how The Hunger Games is an event far worse than modern-day warfare, and why. One 12-year-old child. 23 teenagers. 18 days in a carefully curated arena designed for death. In the real world, this seems almost unimaginable....

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