The Hunger Games are a current set of popular books recently released as a movie. Many students have commented on the sociological content. One of my students, Frank Holleman, wrote a fantastic Facebook post, describing the sociology lessons he saw in it. I asked his permission to share a portion of it. 

Since MNU is having a "Hunger Gamble" meal this week, where students will simulate world circumstances by being put into "districts" to eat, and since we are bringing back our Sociology of Film class this Summer, I thought this was a timely post. Here are one sociology student's thoughts on the Hunger Games:

The whole movie starts off with this sense of poverty. Shooting a deer... to sell it and survive. The children are then assembled and two are chosen to participate in the Hunger Games and get the "privilege" of visiting the capitol. You immediately see the difference of cultures. Peter and Katniss travel in a high luxury train, with baked goodies and the best of best provided for them. The capitol is a display of money, excess and "fashion". While the people of district 12 dress in a very modest and traditional way, the people here look rather ridiculous. Big, fancy, complicated, exaggerated dresses and gender independent make-up that perfectly matches the dresses in its stupidity. Peter and Katniss come out of a world of hunger and through a train ride they arrive in this world of un-necessity and overflow.