Where did the idea for The Hunger Games  ideaworriedcomehardestpilotupsettingwarprogrammesstartedinvasionto winexperiencecomplainedreality from?
One night in 2003, Suzanne Collins was watching TV. It was at the time of the US  comeprogrammesto winpilotworriedcomplainedwarinvasionstartedhardestupsettingidearealityexperience of Iraq. The only  startedexperiencepilotinvasionideato winwarrealityupsettingcomehardestworriedprogrammescomplained she could find on TV were ‘reality’ programmes of young people competing  invasionpilotrealityprogrammesstartedupsettingideahardestcomplainedwarexperienceworriedcometo win a million dollars and news programmes about the  hardestrealitypilotcomecomplainedto winworriedstartedupsettinginvasionideaprogrammeswarexperience . Suzanne says that the two things  to winprogrammesexperienceupsettinghardestcomeinvasionideastartedpilotrealityworriedcomplainedwar to mix together in her head and she had the  hardeststartedwarinvasioncomepilotupsettingcomplainedprogrammesexperienceidearealityto winworried for The Hunger Games. She has always found news programmes of wars  pilotcomplainedworriedinvasioncomerealityprogrammeswarexperienceto winhardestupsettingstartedidea . When she was a child, her father was a  comestartedhardestprogrammescomplainedrealityto winupsettingideainvasionexperienceworriedpilotwar in the US air force and he fought in Vietnam. It was a very frightening  upsettingcomecomplainedpilotexperiencestartedwarideahardestworriedinvasionto winrealityprogrammes for her.
Too much violence?
Some parents in the US have  worriedupsettingpilotstartedideacomplainedexperiencecomeprogrammeshardestwarto wininvasionreality about the violence in the book. But Suzanne says she was very  hardestinvasionexperienceworriedupsettingto wincomplainedideawarrealitypilotprogrammesstartedcome about how much violence we see on TV nowadays. Suzanne is also worried about the amount of  upsettinginvasionideastartedcomplainedhardestto wincomeexperiencerealitywarworriedpilotprogrammes TV we watch. ‘We put too much of our lives on TV,’ she says. ‘And we care less for people because of this.’ She said that writing about death and violence in the story was the  worriedwarhardestideaexperiencepilotstartedinvasionto winprogrammesupsettingrealitycomplainedcome thing for her to do and
she hopes it will make people think about what they watch in future.