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Index
Cover
Contents
Title
Copyright
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: “Having an Eye for Beauty isn’t Necessarily a Weakness”: The Art of Resisting the Capitol
Chapter 1: “The Final Word on Entertainment”
“The Right Shade for Sunlight on Fur”
“We Could Really Make you Something Special”
“You Almost Look Like a Real Person”
“Oh, That is a Piece of Bad Luck”
“It Would Be Best for Everyone If I Were Dead”—Not!
Chapter 2: “Somewhere between Hair Ribbons and Rainbows”
Can Music Be Dangerous?
The Character of Music and the Music of Character
The Renewal of Hope: “The Meadow Song”
A Fate Worse Than Death: “The Hanging Tree”
Dangerous Music: Rue’s Four Notes and the Mockingjay’s Song
The Power of Music: From Plato to Panem
Chapter 3: “I Will Be your Mockingjay”
Words and Images Catching Fire
The Reaping: Symbols That Create an Oppressive World
Preparation for the Arena: Theatrical Performance as a Weapon
The Arena and the Careers: Metaphors in a Manufactured World
Katniss in the Arena: Paradox and Change
The Metaphor of the Mockingjay
Part Two: “We’re Fickle, Stupid Beings”: Hungering for Morality in an Immoral World
Chapter 4: “The Odds Have Not Been Very Dependable of Late”
“Best of Luck”
“It’s Worked So Far”
“There’s Still you, There’s Still Me”
“Feeling Somehow Worried”
“The Answer to Who I Am”
Chapter 5: The Joy of Watching Others Suffer
The Diabolical Vice
“The Dying Boys and Girls in the Arena”
“Savages”
“They Say the Food is Excellent”
“These Monsters Called Human Beings”
All Too Human and All too Familiar
Chapter 6: “So Here I am in His Debt Again”
Bread, Bonds, and Burdens
Debts inside the Arena that Can Never Be Repaid
Not All Bonds are Burdensome
The Gift of Loyalty
The Gift of Memory
Part Three: “I am as Radiant as the Sun”: The Natural, the Unnatural, and Not-So-Weird Science
Chapter 7: Competition and Kindness
“One Slip in Thousands”
The Competitive Edge of Kindness
Not Saving the Avox: Conscience and Regret
Deep Down, Aren’t We All Selfish?
Altruism: Real or Not Real?
Chapter 8: “No Mutt is Good”—Really?
“A Mix of Human and Lizard and Who Knows What Else”
“An Eerily Human Quality”
“Animals in Nature Don’t Act Like This”
Part Four: “Peeta Bakes. I Hunt.”: What Katniss can Teach us About Love, Caring, and Gender
Chapter 9: Why Katniss Chooses Peeta
What Could Katniss Learn, Sitting on Her Porch?
Marcus Aurelius Should Be President of Panem
Katniss the Stoic?
Why Katniss Chooses Peeta
Chapter 10: “She Has No Idea. The Effect She Can Have.”
“She’s a Survivor, that One”
Theseus, Spartacus, and Katniss
“Fresh as a Raindrop”: Prim and Femininity
Gender in Panem
The Star-Crossed Lovers from District 12
“I Really Can’t Think about Kissing”
Chapter 11: Sometimes the World is Hungry for People Who Care
Sometimes Katniss Cares First and Thinks Later
Sometimes you Need to Care about More than Justice
Sometimes We All Need to Be Cared For
Sometimes Love for a Sister Leads to Care for a Stranger
Sometimes you Care So Much that you Shoot an Arrow at the President
Part Five: “As long as you can find yourself, you’ll Never Starve”: How to be yourself when it’s all a Big Show
Chapter 12: Why Does Katniss Fail at Everything She Fakes?
“It’s All a Big Show”
“Are you Sick?”
“As Long as you Can Find yourself”
“I’m Not Going Anywhere”
Chapter 13: Who is Peeta Mellark?
“It’s No Use. His Heart Has Failed.”
“I Don’t Think He’ll Ever Be the Same”
“The Problem Is, I Can’t Tell What’s Real Anymore, and What’s Made Up”
“They’ve Replaced you with the Evil-Mutt Version of yourself”
Part Six: “Here’s some Advice. Stay Alive.”: A Tribute’s guide to the Morality and Logic of Warfare
Chapter 14: “Safe to Do What?”
“The Dark Days Must Never Be Repeated”
Bellum Universale at the Cornucopia
“An Enormous Kindness”
“I’m Done Killing Slaves”
“It Benefits No One”
Chapter 15: Starting Fires Can Get you Burned
Stepping into the Arena
Designing the Arena
Justice Doesn’t Require a “Justice Building”
Cracking the Nut
Putting Out the Fire
Chapter 16: The Tribute’s Dilemma
The Game with the Bread
The First Game: Reaping by the Numbers
The Second Game: Training Days
The Prisoner’s Dilemma: Cooperate or Betray?
The Arena: The Tribute’s Dilemma
Part Seven: “It must be very Fragile if a Handful of Berries can Bring it down”: The Political Philosophy of Coriolanus Snow
Chapter 17: Discipline and the Docile Body
Fantastic Fashion and Shifting Focus
The Hunger of Docile Bodies
Discovering Discipline in the Capitol
Going Underground: Discipline in District 13
Mastering Modification with Cinna
Chapter 18: “All of This is Wrong”
The Cornucopia of Happiness
Capitol Corruption
There’s More than One Way to Be a Slave
Chapter 19: Class is in Session
A Different Kind of Capital
Capital in the Capitol
Learning to Labor
It’s a Hard Habitus to Break
You Say you Want a Revolution?
Let’s Play “Find the Wavy Squares”
Contributors
Index
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