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In a rare interview with Time magazine, Suzanne Collins openly asserted in 2013 that she considers the Hunger Games trilogy to be an extended anti-war commentary, and she admits that she was influenced by a variety of sources.
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Trites, R.S. (2014). “Some Walks you have to Take Alone”. In: Connors, S.P. (eds) The Politics of Panem. Critical Literacy Teaching Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-806-0_2
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