Art imitating life is not just a saying – that’s what I learned today 🙂

It’s 9: 33 PM on day 574 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to  work, prepare and  publish my Disability of the Day feature, feed myself an avocado sandwich for breakfast, watch TV,  continue reading Mockingjay  – the third book in The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins – feed myself rice and curry  for lunch, brush my teeth once more and finish reading the book.

As you read in the above paragraph I finally finished reading Mockingjay and although I am not one to do to book or in this case series review I am making an exception for The Hunger Games trilogy – The Hunger Games trilogy takes place in an unidentified future time period after the destruction of the current nations of North America, in a totalitarian nation known as “Panem”. Panem consists of a hugely rich Capitol, located in what used to be the Rocky Mountains, and twelve (formerly thirteen) surrounding, poorer districts which are under the hegemony of the Capitol. The Capitol is lavishly rich and technologically futuristic, but the twelve Districts are in varying states of poverty – the trilogy’s protagonist, Katniss Everdeen, lives in the poorest District 12, formerly Appalachia, where people regularly die of starvation. As punishment for a rebellion generations previous against the Capitol wherein twelve of the districts were defeated and the thirteenth destroyed, every year one boy and one girl from each of the remaining twelve districts, between the ages of twelve and eighteen, are selected by lottery and forced to participate in the “Hunger Games”. The Games are a televised event where the participants, called “tributes”, must fight to the death in a dangerous outdoor arena until only one remains. The winning tribute and his/her corresponding district is then rewarded handsomely with food and plenty. The purpose of the Hunger Games is to provide entertainment for the Capitol and to serve as a warning to the Districts to remind them of the Capitol’s power and lack of remorse. – I give the trilogy 5/5 what surprised me most about it was that even though it was factious it dealt with real themes such as the unequal distribution of resources and becoming the very thing you’re fighting.  Have you experienced art in any form imitating life?