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False Ideologies In The Hunger Games, By Susan Collins

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A False ideology that the capitol enforces amongst each district is that they are well taken care of and that the Capitol will do what benefits their citizens in every situation. Unfortunately, Panem is not a democratic civilization that takes input from the members of society. Due to it repressive dystopian society, members of society are forbidden to rebel against the government. Katniss and Peeta, her fellow tribute, recognize the falsity allergies that consist in their society and decide to rebel against the capital with the only leverage they can control their entertainment. Upon the ending of the hunger games, Katniss and Peeta are informed only one tribute may win. As a form of rebellion, Katniss, and Peeta attempt to eat poison berries so they both die simultaneously. This would result in no winners of the seventy-fourth annual hunger games. “‘Greetings to the final contestants of the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games. The earlier revision has been revoked. Closer examination of the rulebook has disclosed that only one winner may be allowed,” he says. “Good luck and may the odds be …show more content…

Katniss took a high risk of exposing the Capitol’s false ideologies, she faces the consequences of her rebellion throughout the trilogy. This is a dramatic representation of modern societies inequalities amongst the social class. If the twenty-first-century civilians do not aim to correct the system in which we live in, it will only get worse. Katniss, Peeta and the team who guides district twelve, illustrate drastic outcomes can occur when one decides to question authorities, which is present in modern societies rebellions. If we never correct the inequality that exists amongst the Bourgeoisie and Proletariat, we may end up as underprivileged as district twelve or as oblivious as the

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