Monday, February 6, 2012
palisade: The author of an unofficial guide to Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games novels has created a map that shows how the districts of Panem correspond to present-day North America. (Embiggen.) Using passages from the book and guesses based on tectonic plate formations, The Panem Companion author V. Arrow decided where the 13 districts belong and which parts of the continent are just underwater. So maybe this is just me, but for some reason when I read the books, I never pictured Panem to be this BIG.  I felt like it was all circulated in a small-ish area, like part of the east coast or something.  I mean, District 11 on this map is HUGE!  And why would District 4 ever be shaped like that??  And there would have to be way more than one school in District 12, so what are the chances that Peeta AND Katniss, two kids from the same school, both got picked?! Unless all the people were centralized in a much smaller area and all the rest is land.  Also, everybody in the Districts is supposed to attend the Reaping.  It would be such a long journey if you lived 500 miles away from where the Reaping was happening!  They don’t have cars or anything, everyone is so poor!  I do remember in Mockingjay when Katniss was talking about the size of her district and it was larger than I thought, but I can’t remember the passage or number right now.  Anyway, that map isn’t even official or anything, and this was just a side note paragraph, but the map is pretty cool anyway!  The blog post where she describes how she came up with the land space is real neat.  District 12 is in Maryland, woo, maybe I can go find where Peeta bakes. Well this is nifty and very much satisfying for my inner nerd.

palisade:

The author of an unofficial guide to Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games novels has created a map that shows how the districts of Panem correspond to present-day North America. (Embiggen.)

Using passages from the book and guesses based on tectonic plate formations, The Panem Companion author V. Arrow decided where the 13 districts belong and which parts of the continent are just underwater.

So maybe this is just me, but for some reason when I read the books, I never pictured Panem to be this BIG.  I felt like it was all circulated in a small-ish area, like part of the east coast or something.  I mean, District 11 on this map is HUGE!  And why would District 4 ever be shaped like that??  And there would have to be way more than one school in District 12, so what are the chances that Peeta AND Katniss, two kids from the same school, both got picked?! Unless all the people were centralized in a much smaller area and all the rest is land.  Also, everybody in the Districts is supposed to attend the Reaping.  It would be such a long journey if you lived 500 miles away from where the Reaping was happening!  They don’t have cars or anything, everyone is so poor!  I do remember in Mockingjay when Katniss was talking about the size of her district and it was larger than I thought, but I can’t remember the passage or number right now.  Anyway, that map isn’t even official or anything, and this was just a side note paragraph, but the map is pretty cool anyway!  The blog post where she describes how she came up with the land space is real neat.  District 12 is in Maryland, woo, maybe I can go find where Peeta bakes.

Well this is nifty and very much satisfying for my inner nerd.

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