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Fate and Free Will
If Katniss Everdeen thought her life's road was laid out for her before the Games, once she gets to the Capitol it's paved over in concrete. She's going to fight and probably die, or else survive by killing other equally helpless kids. That's about the extent of her choices.
But, in The Hunger Games, there are points where she can change the game, not only in terms of what the Capitol wants, but what everyone in this future world expects. The story's in part a parable about fate vs. free will. Fate sends Katniss to the Hunger Games, but Katniss has a few things to say about the exact direction her road will take.
The Reaping is the ultimate symbol of fate in the film.
Katniss's choices defy or at least defer the inevitable.
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