Daily Dialogue — October 14, 2017

PEETA: So what happens when we get back?
KATNISS: I don’t know. I guess I may try to forget.
PEETA: I don’t wanna forget.

— The Hunger Games (2012), written by Gary Ross and Suzanne Collins and Billy Ray, novel by Suzanne Collins

The Daily Dialogue theme this week: Homecoming, suggested by Gisela Wehrl who also recommended today’s dialogue.

Trivia: The first name of the main character, Katniss Everdeen, is derived from the name of a group of edible plant species, genus “Sagittaria”, commonly known as “arrowhead.” This is a reference to the character’s archery skills. Her surname is a reference to Bathsheba Everdene who is the lead female character in Thomas Hardy’s novel “Far from the Madding Crowd.” Suzanne Collins, who wrote the novel that The Hunger Games is based on, said “The two are very different, but both struggle with knowing their hearts.”

Bonus Trivia: The film was released 25 years after another film set in a totalitarian society and is about a televised violent game The Running Man (1987).

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Gisela: “Homecoming is the time to take stock: How will all these events effects the our protagonists’ life after? There are not the same as those who were forced to attend the games. But each of them chooses a different strategy to survive the trauma.

The dialogue also foreshadows the events in ‘Mockingjay’ where Peeta forgets a very crucial thing.”