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Past And Present Experiences In The Hunger Games Trilogy By Suzanne Collins

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When an author writes a book or a novel, they were impacted or inspired to write it. Past and present experiences can impact an author’s writing and inspiration can come from anywhere at any time like watching a show on tv close to midnight. The inspiration for writing a book can come from anywhere like watching a show about people competing for money or watching footages from the war in Iraq. Suzanne Collins developed the Hunger Games series on these current inspirations and also from her relationship between war and media. Her life influences the way she wrote her books, The Hunger Games Trilogy, with a TV game show, footage from the war in Iraq, and from her knowledge of a battlefield from what her father had taught her. One of Suzanne’s

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