In American War, shortly after the assassination of General Weiland, Omar El Akkad seems to revisit and revise Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games with the Yuffsy, an especially brutal version of mixed martial arts (American War chapter 10). What elements does El Akkad borrow from Collins? How does he change the scenario of the Games themselves? How does the Yuffsy relate to the larger narrative of El Akkad’s novel? What does our knowledge of Hunger Games add to this scene?(550-600 words)
