Let The Games Begin

When I stated reading the article, “Why the Olympics are a lot like the Hunger Games” I was completely hooked. This may sound cliché, but I am obsessed with the Hunger Game movies because its so unreal, but somehow I find a way to relate with them, as does Samantha Retrosi.

I related the Hunger Games with war. Whenever 18 year old boys or older men were drawn into war because they had to defend their country, and their lives seem as the Hunger Games. You can look at it as the “game” to survive. In Samantha’s case she looks at it as the game to win.

Unfortunately, for her and for many athletes it is an extreme training, that made her grow “accustomed to gritting her teeth under the strain of various forms of pain.” With her article I was able to see the other side of this glorifying event, the side of pain and sacrifice. When I watch the Olympics I view it as if it was a magical event that only the best of the best can go, but I never put too much though about what it meant to be the best of the best. Samantha shows the fans the side that one should actually admire them for, the side of their pain, as towards their side of beauty and physical excellence.

After reading this article, I realizad how much the Hunger Games are in our society, and thanks to Samantha I was able to realize it. Of course, maybe her descrptions are a bit exaggerated so that her appeal to pathos convinces the reader of how terrible her glorifying experience was, but still its the other side to the story that I had never though about.

Congratulations to all those in the Winter Olympics, may the odds be ever in your favor.