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Originally Posted by BraveMaroon
In my mind, when I was reading it, I thought it was pan-EM, because I was not a Latin scholar, I wasn't thinking along those lines and they didn't reveal the Bread and Circuses origin until later in the 3rd book.
I assumed like "mutts" for mutations, they were referring to all-America, or Pan-America which got bastardized and truncated to Panem.
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Huh. Never thought of that, but that would make sense.
I picked up on the
panem = bread right off the bat, though I didn't relate it to
panem et circensis until the author made that connection in the third book; I just related it to bread and hunger (games).
Speaking of the third book, am I the only one who was really wasn't satisfied with the ending of the third book?