Control In The Hunger Games

The Capitol uses many methods to “control” the people of Panem. How does this control work?

There was a great war between the 13 districts and the capitol of Panem, the war resulted in the districts being enslaved and District 13 destroyed . Every year the capitol of Panem selects tributes, a boy and a girl both between the age of 12-18 from each district as punishment for rebelling against the capitol, the hunger games where they’ll have to kill each other and only one victor came go home. But on the 74th year of the hunger games, a tribute from district 12 won which sparked a rebellion, somehow in the span of 70 years the people of Panem is oblivious to how the capitol is controlling them. Although the methods they use to control the people

Many of the citizen in the Capitol had been influenced by the deaths brutality shown in the Hunger Games’ barbarism and had accustomed to the all the wealth they acquired from the other districts, living in fine conditions changed their way of life and the way they see the people of the Districts. It is not clearly stated why the districts rebelled against the capitol but it might be how the district were fed up with the capitol’s lust for power and their ever growing wealth from the

The districts are supposed to not only Tolerate, but celebrate he games, pretending that it is a joyful occasion. The games are a reminder that if the districts rebel against the capitol there will be a limit the the cruelty with which they will be punished. This tradition has been there for more than seven decades and it has worked so far, letting the districts know that any attempt of rebellion would’ve futile and would suffer more from the loss then gain even if they they won. The odds of being picked are determined by the number of entries, age twelve gets one, thirteen gets two and so on. But because many of the families are starving, their children has the option to buy extra grains and resources at the cost of an entry. Gale, who supports a single mother and younger siblings, admitted that he had six entries when he was twelve. So citizens of poorer districts has to face the decision of increasing the odds of their children being slaughtered or die of hunger. However, a victor will receive enough provisions to comfortably live out the rest of his or her’s life.

The capitol also uses fear and desperation to manipulate the districts. The people of the districts are fearful that if they revolt the capital or protest against the games, that the capitol will destroy one