So I found this book called the guide to The Hunger Games, The guide to the districts!
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StephenMalovski — 9 years ago(November 14, 2016 03:55 AM)
So I found this book called the guide to The Hunger Games, The guide to the districts!
and this is what I learned
District 1 is in Montana, Vyoming and Idaho (potato country) and despite the fact that those are mainly argocultural
somehow everyone is a goldsmith and jeweller and they have a magical machine that can turn graffit into diamonds!
District 2 just north of the Capitol near Colorado and Nebraska (those aren't north of Denver where the Capitol is supposed to be! the richest District and the peacekeepers are recruited from there!
(why would they recruit soldiers from the richest district)
District 3 is located near Indiana, Illinois and Idaho and is producing all of the technology and all it has all the technicians and innovators there but is considered among the poorer districts?
District 4 is located near California and Nevada and its main industry is fishing and is considered among the richest districts?! I don't know for sure but I think that usually fishing communities are pretty poor! It doesn't make any sense!
Discrict 5 has nuclear and solar power plants is located near Utah and Arizona! (just a question if Panem get it's energy from nuclear, solar and probably has dams that produce hydroenergy why are they mining coal in district 12?
District 6 is located near Wisconsin,Michigan and Minesota and they specialise in transport which means that they are making the hovercrafts, train carriages and other stuff! They are underperforming in the Hunger Games because the lack of hard labor in their district! Now if you have worked on a treadmill(transport are always made on a treadmills) you'll know that work like that is a pretty hard labor
District 7 is in Washington and Oregon lumber district which has a lot of forest with plenty of lumberjacks(that are pretty good with axes cause chainsaws doesn't exist despite the fact that Panem has nuclear power) if you have 115 industrial lumber mills in a state like and you get your lumber solely from there you'll run out of wood very fast!
District 8 is located near Washington or Michigan and their main product is textiles and they are making all of the uniforms!
District 9 main product is grain and is located in Kanzas and is underperfoming in The Hunger Games cause is an urban Dictrict that is filled with farms and grannaries(again it doesn't make any sense)
District 10 main product is livestock, it's located Texas and they are all cowboys Y'all
District 11 is located in Georgia and Alabama it's the poorest and it's filled with black people that pick apples and cotton all day(seriously that is not a joke)
It suplies the capitol with Fruit and probably District 8 with cotton despite the fact that it has only 12 acres of cultivated land which isn't nearly enough to supply absolutely anything!
Not enough land for supplying an entire country with apples and cotton.
District 12 main product is coal but it baffles me why is this district considered poorer than district 11 which basically is filled with slaves! -
CharlesTheBold — 9 years ago(November 14, 2016 09:31 PM)
They should have labelled it "speculation". I don't think they would find much fish in Nevada, which is landlocked and mostly desert.
I've read other essays on the districts which are a lot more closely reasoned. -
Spielburger — 9 years ago(November 15, 2016 05:48 AM)
They should have labelled it "speculation". I don't think they would find much fish in Nevada, which is landlocked and mostly desert.
I think this may be a reference to what I (in homage to the late, great, Bill Hicks) have sometimes called in the past "Arizona Bay".
The formation of Panem is due to a series of events, including a number of "natural disasters". Although Collins mainly talks about "rising sea levels" in this context, it's resonable to assume that those natural events would also include California finally being ripped away from the rest of the mainland by earthquakes. The resulting coast would therefore be a lot further inland than it is now.
I've read other essays on the districts which are a lot more closely reasoned.
Yes: I'm very doubtful as to just how much of what is quoted in the OP counts as "canon". Collins gives very few clues as to the exact geography of Panem:
D12 is in Appalachia (which is rather vague, considering how small the district is); D11 is to the south of D12; D13 is/was to the east (and north?) of D12; and the Capitol is in the Rockies. In interviews she's also said that D11 is meant to be centred around present-day Atlanta, and I think she confirmed that D4 was in California. That's petty much it
"So I've got bullets, but no gun. That's quite Zen." -
CharlesTheBold — 9 years ago(December 21, 2016 06:21 PM)
she's also said that D11 is meant to be centred around present-day Atlanta,
A bit of irony here, because the District 11 scene was filmed IN Atlanta. You might even speculate that it was shot exactly where the action "happened".
Incidentally, Snow's "Presidential Palace" was a mansion in north Atlanta called the Swan House. The Training Center was Atlanta's Mariott Marquis hotel, whose wierd architecture does look a bit futuristic ( and where a science fiction convention is held every September). The District squares in the Victory Tour were filmed in an old warehouse district used in a number of movies.