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Suzanne Collins’s (2008) The Hunger Games opens with the image of Katniss rolling out of bed, slipping on her hunting gear, and heading for the high, electrified chain-link fence that separates District 12 from the woods beyond. The fence encloses all of District 12 and ostensibly exists to keep out the flesh-eaters that roam the woods, but as many scholars have noted, the fence primarily functions as a way to oppress people and hold them in their mental, physical, and economic pre-determined place (Pavlik, 2012; Wezner, 2012).
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Macaluso, M., Mckenzie, C. (2014). Exploiting the Gaps in the Fence. 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_7
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