The entire nation of Panem is severely traumatized, even if they don't realize it. Why is Haymitch the way he is? Why did Foxface have to die like that? What is the significance of Cato's name? All this and more as we analyze chapters 23 and 24 of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.

Content warnings: discussions of trauma, death, PTSD, murder, suicide.

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Audio Producer/Editor: Lidia Bayne

Special thanks to Dylan Forehand

Sources:

https://dmh.mo.gov/healthykids/providers/trauma

https://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/treat/essentials/complex_ptsd.asp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foil_(fiction)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_the_Elder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_the_Younger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_Lives

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch

Plutarch’s Parallel Lives Volume III (which includes Cato the Younger) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14140/14140-h/14140-h.htm#LIFE_OF_CATO

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