What I Would Do if I was in the Hunger Games

Although this post may be slightly late to the party, it can't be denied that there's still quite a lot of hype over the Hunger Games series. Having read all of the books and having watched all of the movies to date, I've formed an opinion about the entire Hunger Games saga, which is this; The overall play was pretty good. In the end, however, theres honestly only one thing we care about; 24 people being tossed in an arena to kill each other! Oh, yeah!

We like a little action in our stories. We like the clutch moments. We like the "only one winner" aspect of it all. The first book gave us plenty of that. The second book was just boring, until the exact same idea was recycled and injected it with some action. As for the last book, well... that was simply boring. I'm sorry, Suzanne Collins. 

Perhaps it says something about humans if the one part we care about is people killing each other. Well, as terrible as it is, i'll bet it makes for a great blogpost! So let's get to it!

1. I've just been chosen to go into the Hunger Games. What can i do to get out of here? I don't know. Maybe... run?!
Katniss totally could have just done that! She might have even had a chance. They couldn't kill her yet, right? Then they'd be short a tribute! They'd have to somehow sedate her, which might be tough if she's trying to kill you. She could have at least taken out a capital soldier while they were re-capturing her. So I'd book it out of there.

2. Assuming that they caught me, which I suppose they would eventually, then I'd soon find myself in their funky training arena. Frankly, I wouldn't even try training. There'd be no point, as I could never learn to fight in a few weeks. If it ever came down to a fight, then I'd be useless, in the real world or dystopian world. I do take archery lessons, but unless they're standing perfectly still and under twenty meters away, I probably couldn't hit them. I highly doubt that I'd find a bow, either. So instead...

3. I'd spend my time talking to other people. I'm definitely not going to win this on my own, so I'll just have to find myself a team. Maybe I can find some other quite, non-fighting types to team with me? Unfortunately, those people would probably be useless fighters like myself. Maybe, though, just maybe, I could get everyone who wasn't one of those mean career tributes together to team up against them? Then I'd tell them my plan...

4. When the Hunger Games started, my plan would be put into action. First, we'd all rush the cornucopia and push the outnumbered careers away. We'd have all the loot to ourselves! The we'd camp out for a few days until half the careers had died from dehydration/crazy wasps/killing one another.

5. After most of the careers were severely dead or dying, my team would split into small packs to hunt down those remaining. With our awesome cornucopia equipment, we'd crush them if they did surrender, however, and didn't try to kill us first, we'd let them join our gang. The first sign of trouble, though, and they're out of the group.

6. Once everyone left was in my team, we'd simply camp out in the middle. Whatcha gonna do now, capitol peeps? We've got ten people left who aren't killing each other. Is this entertaining to people at home? I don't think so!

7. We'd continue to wait in the middle, talking, eating some of our food, and chilling. In case the capitol didn't let us out, we'd simply plant some seeds and make a farm. Trenches and walls would be built around the cornucopia. It would be a fortress, a safe haven in case the capitol decided to send wolves or anything like that at us. If we had to scavenge for food, we'd do so in groups. Nothing would be able to kill us.

8. After weeks or months of this, hopefully the capital would set us free. If not, then we can live on indefinitely, farming and building a community. 

See, it's perfect! I don't know why they never tried that before. I suppose that maybe they did, and the capitol just sent soldiers in to slaughter them... but they couldn't do that every year. At one point they'd get tired of it, and the people would get bored of it, and the system would be shut down. It's really not that hard, tributes.

Thanks for reading,

-Mark