Still no running water. I need cold, running water to try to paint book covers. As a workaround, I picked up some cheap paint brushes at Walmart that I can use temporarily and throw away if ruined without risking my professional brushes. Someone did come out to look at the water situation, but nothing has been done.
I talked last week about Hunger Games book 1 and how it has a spirit of prostitution. I'm almost finished with book 3. I'm at the very end with fewer than 20 pages to go. I said before that the female protagonist keeps believing lies and how this is the lie the hero believes, which I think comes from Greek literature. It turns out the entire series is a Greek story and possibly, depending on whether the protagonist dies in the last 20 pages, a Greek tragedy. The rest of this is going to contain some spoilers for book 3, if you think you might want to read it or watch the movie.
With about 20 pages left the female protagonist murders the person opposing President Snow, who is the villain of the series. The symbol of Snow is the white rose, which he said is perfect. The symbol of the villain is perfection. Snow's opponent is murdered by the protagonist with information provided by Snow, information that cannot be verified as true.
The problem with Greek stories is they have the same ending. The hero wins but loses the thing he loves the most or the thing most precious to him. Boring. Life doesn't work that way. Hunger Games is pure Greek storytelling. The reason the protagonist murders someone is because she thinks that person destroyed the thing most precious to her. There's no direct proof. There's no trial. The protagonist takes her own vengeance. Technically, the thing the protagonist loves most is herself, but in the story she's supposed to love something else more. No way. By her actions she loves herself most.
Something they don't teach in Greek literature is that a lot of the stories are a retelling of the garden of Eden story with Lucifer as the hero and God as the villain. It works something like this. God is usually but not always portrayed by Zeus. Lucifer could be any of the other gods. There's a woman in the story who needs knowledge or wisdom or something. The woman is a symbol of Eve. God(Zeus) is trying to keep her from getting it. Lucifer(some god in the story) is opposing Zeus to help the woman acquire wisdom or whatever she thinks she needs. Finally, Lucifer gives the woman(Eve) knowledge, and together they've defeated God. Hunger Games is the same thing.
In the series, Lucifer(President Snow) is symbolized by a white rose. Despite his evil/sin, he is perfection. Snow is repeatedly called a serpent, and his breath smells like blood. The God character is authoritarian and trying to defeat Lucifer and free humanity while at the same time withholding information from Eve(female protagonist). But the God character is a bit ruthless as well and will sacrifice anyone to win. When Eve(female protagonist) kills God, Lucifer is standing there watching. It was his knowledge/wisdom that empowered Eve to defeat God. The overarching theme of the series is rebellion against authority.
This isn't the first young adult series to take a walk on the Lucifer side. The Golden Compass, a knowledge that's withheld by authority series, is anti-God. The Percy Jackson books may be, too, but I haven't investigated those. I probably won't. I only read the Hunger Games, because they were fairly clean, cheap in French and I needed the language practice with a series on the young adult reading level. This series and Divergent will give me at least 1.2 million words read and maybe closer to 2 million. One point two is an estimate based on 250 words per page, which is probably low, as these are physically large books.
Did I mention the female protagonist is a virgin? If she dies in the last 20 pages, she'll be a virgin sacrifice.
Have a great weekend.
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