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By the end of Suzanne Collins’s (2010) novel Mockingjay, Katniss has discovered that the evils of Panem cannot be cured with only a warrior’s courage or an archer’s skills. Instead, any hope of a new order to emerge from the dark debris of the old depends on Katniss’s becoming a philosopher.
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Mcdonald, B. (2014). The Three Faces of Evil. In: Connors, S.P. (eds) The Politics of Panem. Critical Literacy Teaching Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-806-0_5
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