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Essay On Distractions In The Hunger Games

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Distractions are in order to to separate people from the real world depending on where they stand. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, is about a young 16 year old girl and boy living in a society where they are split up in districts. Every year a game is played to put a boy and girl between the age of 12-18 in every district in an arena, they fight to survive. On Earth, the society has hate and love, they all connect to how people can react to the control that is put on everyone. relief comes to people, their grasp of attention is lost. In this quote it states, “To make it humiliating as torturous, the Capitol requires us to treat the Hunger Games with festivities, a sporting event pitting every district against the others. The last tribute …show more content…

After each one dies and one comes home to celebrate, others forget about everything else and the effect this can have on the other 12 districts. In the world people seperate what is important and what is not important by control. What level class people are in and what they receive, can show how much care one has for the unfortunate. In This quote it states, “Its excellent shooting. I turn to the Gamemakers. A few are nodding approval, but the majority of them are fixated on a roast pig that just arrived at their banquet table. Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don’t even have the decency to pay attention to me. That I’m being upstaged by a dead pig.”(Collins pg. 101). This can show how upper class level people may have that kind of attention so the can forget about how the people begging for money on there knees can feel. Even the Capitol is twisting the Gamemakers mind and now the Gamemakers will always feel like they don’t need to rise on the ones risking lives by control. When in control, people want a mind control of others doing what is wanted by an audience. In this quote it states, “ Haymitch could not be sending me a clearer

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