The Hunger Games trilogy

[BraveMaroon]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

) The only thing that bothered me was the way you hear the announcer say "pan-EM" instead of "PAN-em." Maybe Suzanne Collins meant for it to be "pan-EM" (though given the derivation she gives of the name, that seems unlikely), but it just sound strange to me. I keep thinking Pan Am.

Really looking forward to the movie, now.

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.

[MysticCat]

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.

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?