In "Someone to Watch Over Me," the critical essay about surveillance both in the Hunger Games and in real life, I felt that the most interesting idea the article brought up was the idea that surveillance isn't really to solve crime- it was shown in london that for every 1,000 crimes committed, surveillance cameras helped solve one- surveillance is to stop it from happening in the first place. I mean think about it. if you're in a store, and you know you're being filmed, you're much less likely to give in to the temptation of taking a candy bar and slipping it in your pocket, right? Right. So I agree with that idea.
     The experience of reading a critical essay was a new one for me. I've read reading responses before, but those were short- this essay was pages long. It took quite a while to read, and while I actually did enjoy reading it, annotating it became a real bore really quickly and in my opinion brought down the whole experience of reading it. It did, however, give me many new ideas that I'd never considered before.
     Because the essay was so long, and held so many ideas, it did inspire me to go deeper with my reading responses. I think next time I write a reading response I'll probably try to think of a more interesting topic for a response because I realized they're not that boring if you have a good topic.