Hunger Games Trading Post
Located in Afghanistan
District Themed Good for Sale!
District 1: Luxury items and jewelry
District 2: Masonry (Models of buildings and structures from novel)
District 3: Technology
District 4: Fishing (Seafood and fishing gear)
District 5: Power (Batteries and basic electronics)
District 6: Transportation (Models of forms of transportation from the novel)
District 7: Lumber (Wooden models of weapons and structures)
District 8: Textiles (Clothing from the novel)
District 9: Grain (Food from the novel)
District 10: Livestock (Buy farm animals from the novel)
District 11: Agriculture (Produce and natural remedies from novel)
District 12: Main characters' gift shop! And coal...
The idea is to create a small shopping plaza modeling a "Hob-like" trading post. The Hob in The Hunger Games was District 12's black market. "On the way home, we swing by the Hob, the black market that operates in an abandoned warehouse that once held coal." (Collins/Location 119) The attraction would be in Afghanistan so we can pull in individuals from the middle-east in order to publisize the series and provide them with goods and increase vacationers in that area. Within this trading post we will have characters such as Greasy Sae and The Peacekeepers walking around and selling goods. Every once in awhile we will have a Katniss and Peeta walking around saying some of your favorite lines such as, "'I want to die as myself'" (Collins/Location 1750) and don't forget the best line in the entire book, "Rue is dead." (Collins/ Location 2350) There will be 12 sections and each section will sell the item that its corresponding district specializes in. District 12, alongside selling coal will also be the overall giftshop for the Hunger Games! YES YES YES! I said it! THE OVERALL GIFTSHOP FOR THE HUNGER GAMES NOVELS! The fun doesn't stop there, oh no. You also have a CAPITAL themed section. You can buy Capital clothing, wigs, accessories, and even buy a bouquet of President Snow's signature roses. We have it all here at The Hunger Games Trading Post. Don't be that obese middle aged father who never takes his family on vacation! Pack up the van and hit the road to Afghanistan and spend a week at The Hunger Games Trading Post. OH! Did you hear me correctly? Oh hell yes you did! I said stay a week! We have a motel out back of The Post for your family to shack up in! No running water or heat! Live like an impoverished district citizen!
The end gets a little heavy on sarcasm and teeters away from clever satire. And I think you're satirizing my assignment which actually makes it a little tricky to grade, since I assume that having readers trek to Afghanistan isn't going to help the book all that much (any more than the quote "Rue is dead" helps contextualize your ideas here). The initial list has some creative ideas for each district, and re-creating the hob could be a creative approach to extending the reading experience.
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I really like the idea of having a trading post for the Hunger Games, but why in Afghanistan. Doesn't that seem a little dangerous?
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of like a hob trading post and something different for all of the districts but I don't know about it being in Afaghanistan. I think it would be cool to have this on like a strip mall and each store be a different district shop like you said.
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