The Hunger Games with Mr. RUPP (Jake Rupp) "Remember Who the Real Enemy Is"
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An eldest daughter and a couple of berries nearly took down an entire empire. Let's talk about that.
Lyndsey sits down with Jake Rupp — 20-year teacher, young adult literature obsessive, and the guy who has watched The Hunger Games an uncomfortable number of times — to break down why this story keeps getting more relevant, not less.
They get into why Katniss succeeds not because she's charming but because she's incapable of being anything else, how Peeta and Katniss represent two completely different ways of cutting through a system designed to consume you, what Effie Trinket and Cato actually have in common (hint: it's not what you think), why the Capitol's pageantry is doing exactly what pageantry is supposed to do, and what it says about us that we can be completely gripped by a story about children killing each other and still miss the point.
Also: a pregnant wife at a Rue death scene, softball dads as career tribute energy, and the rock. You know the one.
This is the episode for people who loved the books at 13 and are only now realizing what they were actually about.
Jake Rupp teaches English, rhetoric, and young adult literature and makes videos about rhetoric online. Find him on tiktok at @hashtagjrupp
