Home is where the heart is.
But what else defines ‘home’? Do we recognise it by bricks and mortar, or by the relationships the idea of it embodies? The concept of ‘home’ is subtly in perpetual flux throughout The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, whose final filmic adaptation was recently released.
Set in a post-apocalyptic dystopian America, the first-person narrative voices the internal thoughts and extraordinary events in the life of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen. Ruled by the totalitarian government of the Capitol, the world of Panem is split into numbered districts, distinguishable by the produce which they supply to the wealthy Capitol. The greater the distance from the Capitol, the poorer the district, and the Everdeen family inhabits the distant District 12.
