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Consumerism In The Hunger Games

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Consumerism is the concept that an ever expanding consumption of goods is advantageous to the economy. The Hunger Games shows awareness of the discommoding nature of the need to be entertained. The consumerist civilization isn’t all about just about buying things you want. It's about swaying a person to need things that they don’t necessarily need or want and galvanize a person to spend money on things at which times they cannot even afford. A civilization more worried with development and progression than depthless validation and instant enjoyment would be able to accommodate for authentic needs and wants far better. In The Hunger Games there must be an end to consumerism, because it sacrifices people in the process, which causes …show more content…

The people in the Capitol launched their money at body alterations and grand parties while the districts starved. It is really not a far cry from us in the United States. We have no trouble in buying cheap clothes and extravagant goods made by oppressed and underpaid workers in the evolving countries that surround us. Moreover, we let ourselves to be disturbed by the advertising. We are still coming across a story that asks for the overthrow of systems that comfort the common people with bread and spectacles so that they are too distraught to care about justice. "All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of the children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parents can't give. More food. Now that we're rich, she'll send some home with them. But often in the old days, there was nothing to give and the child was past saving, anyway. And here in the Capitol they're vomiting for the pleasure of filling their bellies again and again. Not from some illness of body or mind, not from spoiled food. It's what everyone does at a party. Expected. Part of the fun" (Collins 79). The Capitol thrives, while the districts suffer.
Katniss and Peeta aim to not just be the parts in the Capitol’s games. Peeta states in the movie, “I just keep wishing I could think of a way to show them that they don't own me. If I'm going to die, I wanna still be me” (Ross).

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