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Hello, my name is Matthew Atwell I went to Abington Senior High school and am now a Freshman at Ship. I am a Communications major hoping to acquire a minor in either Marketing or Spanish. I took this class because I have always been talented at understanding literary devices and novels. My favorite novels are Fight Club, The Outsiders, and Moneyball: How to Win in an Unfair Game. My favorite musicians are Pearl Jam, Foster the People, The Doors and Wu Tang Clan. I enjoy watching Sports center, the Office, Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and Wilfred. My favorite movies include Fight Club, Miracle, and the Mighty Ducks, I love playing baseball, hockey and basketball.

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Hunger Games on TV

When reading Hunger Games I could not help but constantly make connections to Survivor. These people are thrown onto an island many of them with little to no outdoors training fight for survival to win 1 million dollars. These characters are told to "outwit, outplay, outlast" their opponents in order to achieve the grand prize at the end, they form bonds with the other competitors, and form relationships, mainly for the sole purpose to turn around and turn on them the very moment they get the chance to. The viewers get the satisfaction of basically watching these people suffer through immense physical and mental torture all for a million dollars, which looking at it from an outsiders perspective after taxes in this day and age is a lot of money but not a mega life changing amount of money to where people should trade in their moral values just so they do not get voted off the island. So the question arises, how much money does it take for people to throw away their life values.
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4 comments:

  1. Kayla BNovember 13, 2011 at 6:08 PM

    I agree that when money is involved people tend to throw away their morals and values. Its funny how greedy and materialistic we are. People will literally do anything for money.

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  2. Blake BombergerNovember 13, 2011 at 7:09 PM

    I agree with Kayla and you as well in terms of money controlling people's morals and actions when making decisions. Survivor really is a great comparison to hunger games, because it is almost the same kind of idea, except people aren't killing each other. As I think about this certain topic between money, survivor, and the hunger games, I wonder how much money it would take for people to actually kill one another in today's reality. I feel like people are that money obssesed that they would play the hunger games. Surely not everyone would do that, but I'm sure millions of people would partake in the game to gain a couple million. I mean like you said Matt, "anything for some quick cash," right?

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  3. meganrawr22November 14, 2011 at 10:09 AM

    People will do anything for money. As long as it's quick and easy. While Survivor may not be that easy, if you think about it, just trying to get by on an island for a few weeks is nothing compared to working for years to make that kind of money. Like Blake said, I also wonder how much money people would kill for. There are hired guns that take people out all the time, but for someone to have the guts to do it on live television would be frightening. I guess it all depends on how deep your morals go.

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  4. CynthiaNovember 16, 2011 at 7:57 AM

    I agree as well people do anything for money.I am not fimilar with survivor but I am pretty sure they have a choice wether they want to be a part of the show or not. They cannot be forced into doing it so it is their own fault that they have to go through the physical pain that shows places on them, unlike in hunger games where the tributes are forced to fight for their lives. If there was a show on tv now that forced people to go into an arena and fight for their lives I would never watch it. But the people on reality shows know what they are getting their selves into, so it is kind of hard to feel bad for them.

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