Discussing Dystopias Imagine it is 1,000 years into the future and the continent of North America is divided into sections. Now give each section a purpose and a class in society. Throw in a totalitarian government force and picture your own life. This is the world that Katniss, Tris, and Tally live in every day. In The Hunger Games, all of North America was divided into twelve sections called districts; each district served an intention for the well-being of the population. Similar to this, in Divergent, a large section of the continent was divided into five factions, each representing a single theme. Unlike these novels, Uglies was divided by stages of human lives. Before the kids turned sixteen, they lived in Uglyville; once they got …show more content…
However, each government had its twist on totalitarianism. Uglies made people subject to the operation, Divergent made people take a serum that put them in a trance that made them kill people, and Hunger Games made two people from every district compete in a killing game as well as stationed troops within each district that ensured people complied with the government. In The Hunger Games anybody who in any way went against the government was assassinated. For example, in District 11, At one time they talk about their districts and their lives and therefore Rue tells Katniss that “[...] [they are] not allowed to eat the crops“ (p. 202) and that if you eat or keep parts of the harvest “[...] [they] whip you and make everyone else watch [...]“ (p. 202). Moreover, Rue says that when the people in her district work on the 8 fields during night-time, the Peacekeepers distribute glasses for night vision and “[...] [one] time, this boy Martin, [...] tried to keep his pair“ (p. 204) and because this is not allowed “[...] [they] killed him on the spot“ (p. 204). Those are examples of the violent, fearful, and bureaucratic control of the government. (The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins - a Typical Dystopian