Lucy Montgomery And The Hunger Games

The traditional consumption of food in everyday life has led to the act being assigned a relatively banal meaning. Authors, however, do not typically share this viewpoint, as they have found that food can be utilized to reveal many hidden meanings behind characters or narratives. Lucy Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables and Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games are no exception to this fact. Both Montgomery and Collins weave food into their stories with the purposes of highlighting power dynamics between figures, as a means of revealing critical information about the story, and to emphasize transitions between significant milestones in the characters’ lives. Although greatly different genres of children’s literature – Anne of Green Gables, being
an aged domestic fiction, while The Hunger Games, a modern dystopian fiction – both provide strong evidence that the utilization of food in literature has greater meaning than merely the characters’ nourishment.