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In the popular story The Hunger Games (which is like a futuristic Coliseum of gladiators), there is an arena of life and death where there is to be only one left alive of the original 24 contestants. The character of key individuals is developed by how they endure the suffering that is part of the annual games of Panem, a country that was once known as North America. Katniss, the heroine, befriends the diminutive Rue, who had been speared by another contestant and lay dying. Rue had befriended Katniss earlier when they were both caught up in the trees by a pack of bigger and stronger adversaries on the ground below. Now Katniss could only hold Rue in her arms and sing her a song, because that is the only thing Rue asked of her with her dying breath. Katniss reflects in the moment: "The words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece of time we call today."
