Corrupt Government In The Hunger Games By Suzzane Collins

Did you know that the book The Hunger Games, sold 100 million copies since 2008? Although The Hunger Games is an original idea, Suzzane Collins took heavy inspiration from many modern and historical stories and epics. The ideas and character designs found in The Hunger Games are there due to other current and historical fiction. The story The Hunger Games uses the Capitol to show a corrupt government that rules over others with drastic reaches in how lower classes are treated. It states in the text that, (referring to the hunger games)“this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how we are at their mercy.”(Collins par10) The people living in the twelve districts know the evil premise of the hunger games but all they can do is sit around and watch.

These are all examples of how the corrupt government in this story uses different living conditions and the barbaric hunger games to show power and make the residents of the 12 districts feel powerless. (put conclusion). The idea of tributes being forced into dangerous positions with death games to keep a community safe is a common theme between Theseus and the Minotaur, and the hunger games. The war with the minotaur pushed king df Atherns to go to extreme lengths to save to country and the war with the Capitol forces the 12 districts to send yearly tributes. These both show the desperation of the two communities to put citizens in danger for protection from the one threatening them. It states in the text that “Because if we did not send them, Minos would wage war on us and it is a war that we would not win”(line six Warwick Hutton). The war with the minotaur pushed the king of Athens to go to extreme ideas to save their country and the war with the capitol forces the 12 districts to send yearly

This is important because it shows how the making of The Hunger Games uses plot points from other historical myths and events such as Theseus and The Minotaur. The way different social classes are treated and how they are strong together in the fictional story The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and in the informational text Patricians and Plebians by PBS. These connections are understandable while watching the movie to show a lack of rights and to show how the twelve districts are mistreated by the capitol. Both texts show that the lower class works for and makes goods and services for the higher classes. In the text “The Hunger Games” it both states that “This is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how we are at their mercy.”(par 10 Suzanne Collins)The author put this in the story to show a kind of forced hierarchy with better social classes being treated much better than the lower