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Dystopian Themes In The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins

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In the book The Hunger Games, one of the themes in the hunger games is that when life isn't fair you have to fight for what's right. The book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a dystopian reality, it is split up into 12 districts 1-4 being the “capitals favorites” 5-12 being the least favorite and paid little to no attention to. Katniss the main character lives in the seam in district 12 she volunteers for the hunger games, the boy named Peeta gets drawn for the reaping and they have to go into the hunger games together. In the book the hunger games there were many times when the characters standing up to the capital and i'm going to kind of dig into that a little bit more. One example of a character(s) standing up to the capital is when Gale and Katniss would sneak under the fence and sneak out of District 12 to hunt.On page 5 when Katniss is getting ready to go out on a hunt she talks about sneaking under the fence; this is evident when she quotes “I always take a moment to listen carefully for the hum that means the fence …show more content…

During the reaping Katniss’s sister Prim's name got drawn for The Hunger Games; so Katniss volunteered to go into the games instead of Prim, and when she got on stage the people of District 12 held up 3 fingers as a way of saying thank you; as stated here, “Then something unexpected happens, at least, I don’t expect it because I don’t think District 12 as a place that cares about me. But a shift occurred since I stepped up to take Prim's place, and now it seems I have become someone precious, at first one, then another, then almost every member of the crowd touches the three middle fingers of their left hand to their lips and holds it out to me” pg. 24, District 12 is showing that the hunger games is not okay, by not cheering Katniss on, In this way the people of district 12 are standing up to the

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The Hunger Games Rebellion against a greater power a very big part of this book. “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins. In this book a girl and boy from each of the twelve districts are chosen to enter an arena. The two chosen kids from district 12 are these “star crossed lovers” who are fighting to survive the game. In the novel The Hunger Games, some examples of standing up to the capital are all the times when Katniss snuck under the fence in district 12, when Katniss buries rue in flowers, and when Katniss and Peeta threaten to eat the berries in the game.

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So the hunger games now serve as a punishment to the districts as to why they should not go against the capitol ever again. As the reader progresses through the novel with the topic in mind, it really makes the reader question if the capitol really had to do what they did. Another evidence of the proposed justification of the capitol's wrongdoing is when, in several instances, Katniss has intentions to do things that retaliate towards the Capitol and cause bloodshed. Tired of being used as a pawn, Katniss has always wanted to retaliate against the Capitol so many times. She has

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The quotation “The hunger games are a reminder of what happens when we rebel against the capitol" implements foreshadowing to postulate that rebelling against the capitol is a heinous and dangerous act that will result in severe consequences. The Hunger Games themselves serve as a metaphor for the consequences of defying a totalitarian government. This statement underscores the significance of the games to the capitol in maintaining control over the districts. The game serves as a warning to anyone who attempts to invoke or confront the capitol, or even goes against the capitol's rules. The use of foreshadowing and symbolism emphasises the importance of obedience and the consequences of rebellion which is dystopian behaviour.

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Likewise, Katniss seems to be making fun of the popular slogan of the Hunger Games: “May the odds be ever in your favor.” Obviously the odds are not in anyone’s favor because at the end of the day the tributes are either going to die or they are going to kill everyone else and have to live with the memories for the rest of their lives. Their is no real winner in that situation, yet the Capital makes it seem like a fun game, the Hunger “Games”. Capital children are mocking it because they know they never have to live it. According to Maria Magher, “The people of District 12 suffer daily from hunger and poverty.

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Just as we did in District Thirteen” (Katniss, 76). The essential purpose which Katniss is conveying, is that The Hunger Games is a form of entertainment where deaths are televised to remind the tributes of how weak they are by the government. Therefore, the games are a means of control and limits the freedom of individuals. Additionally, due to the government’s oppression, it declines to disclose information on the ideas, expressions and actions of particular tributes they oppose, individuals are completely enslaved by the center of control, the Capitol. Evidently, the Capitol denies to provide information from one district to another, simply to keep them isolated from another.

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Throughout the games, announcements that involved changes in rules or special events to intensify the games could never be predicted and would often change the route of the story. This is seen when Katniss and Peeta are about to win together and the Capitol announces “Only one winner may be allowed”(Collins, 342). The announcements made during the games supported the theme because it means that all of the hard work, pain, and suffering that Katniss went through to save herself, as well as Peeta, would be useless if only one could survive. The decision made by the Capitol, which represents society, shows how Katniss, our protagonist, was actively trying to defy the capitol and retaliate, making them opposing forces. Another quote that provides evidence for the theme is early in the book when Katniss is reflecting on the idea of the games and states “The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland.

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Suzanne Collins did a great job including the conflict in her book, the Hunger Games. The conflict is how the people of Panem stood against the Capitol, which made the story more exciting to its readers. However, After reading the interesting book it showed how the people of Panem resisted against the Capitol’s rules, especially in the Hunger games and others are voluntarily happened threw the story. There was a lot ways that the people of Panem resisted the Capitol. One of these were the fact that Katniss and Gale were walking in the forest to hunt and gather food from the forest where its not allowed to cross the districts border but they did, which shows how Katniss and Gale ignore the Capitol’s rules.

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“I volunteer as tribute!” When Katniss realized that it was Prim that was called she immediately said that. Katniss loves Prim so much that she put herself in danger just to save her. At that point in the book, Katniss would rather die than to watch Prim have to go into the Hunger Games. In many of the chapters of The Hunger Games people say, “ May the odds be ever in your favor.”

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