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At the conclusion of the Hunger Games trilogy, Katniss Everdeen watches her children at play. The previously inaccessible wilderness of District 12 has been opened up, and the once fenced-in meadow is now an open space where Katniss’s children roam freely.
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Tan, S.S.M. (2014). Worse Games to Play?. 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_3
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