The Hunger Games

So I thought The Hunger Games was a story about a pack of starving teenagers searching for food midnight...not the case...I couldn't be more wrong. I got something even better! I'm on Chapter 6 on my Nook and loving it. I like it so much I've decided to chronicle my thoughts on each chapter so when I finish I call go back and say "I was SO wrong", or "called that one" (the latter being extremely self-indulgent). Anyway I didn't do Chapters 1-5, but here's Chapter 6:

Chapter 6

Chapter six gives us a bit of exposition about Katness and Gale during their hunting days. I feel like the redhead girl who was taken by the Capitol will play a bigger role within the novel. I could be wrong here and she is just a tool for us to look into Katness' guilt about not helping the redhead girl when she needed it the most. Speaking of the Capitol taking them I got a HUGE Planet of the Apes/War of the Worlds/Cowboys & Aliens feel from the description of the spear that "was attached to a cable" which hauled them up to the hovercraft. This seems like aclassic trope of alien invader films and it lends to the overpowering nature of the capital.
This scene however begs the bigger question about where these two were going. I get a distinct feeling that there is more to District 13 than what Katness is telling us. That's not to say that she even knows what it is, but something that Collins is keeping from us. Evidence of Katness saying "they show it on television occasionally, just to remind us". If this is a Capitol who's clearly technologically advanced enough for hovercrafts, it's plausible they could doctor a television image.

Anyway here's the clip Cowboys & Aliens and the vibe I got from the hovercraft:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQVDhPVyU-o&feature=related