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Dystopian Government In The Hunger Games

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In the Hunger Games, the dystopian government has many ways of controlling the people and ensuring they completely follow the government's rules. The government established many methods to keep their citizens in place. This includes the Hunger Games, a game of 24 contestants, two from each district who fight to the death just as a way for the government to show how powerful they are. There are traditionally four main types of control in dystopian societies, in the Hunger Games the main form of control is bureaucratic control. They create new species of animals, and have electrical fences around the districts, along with many laws to ensure the citizens abide by the Capitol. The largest bureaucratic control is when they are in the Hunger …show more content…

Some large examples shown in the novel are when Katniss and Gale hunt, or when she and Peeta threaten to eat the Nightingale Berries or when she stays with Rue when she dies. In the movie the same events are shown too, but Rue’s death had a much larger impact in the movie. In the book after Rue’s death, Katniss covers her in flowers as a burial shroud, and District 11 sends bread as a thank you. Similarly in the movie Katniss covers Rue in flowers after her death, but instead of receiving bread the district rebels against the capitol, by destroying crops and factories and fighting the guards. As the drone is coming to recover Rue's body Katniss has a moment “I want to do something, right here, right now, to shame them, to make them accountable, to show the Capitol that whatever they do or force us to do there is a part of every tribute they can't own” (Pg 237). Katniss grew fond of Rue as she reminded her of Prim, the one person Katniss truly loves. Seeing Rue's death sparked a stronger hate towards the capitol. One of the countless purposes of a protagonist is to inspire others to see what is wrong in their society and rebel against it. The way District 11 rebelled after Rue's death and Katniss’ empathy towards her shows exactly that. It calls attention to something in the people that they live in a society that has problems; they are watching adolescents murder each other as entertainment just because the government wants them too. This event was one larger step towards Katniss becoming a dystopian protagonist that comes to openly rebel against the Capitol and their

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