Brief Summary Of The Movie 'Panem'

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Panem: Panem is the region where the story takes place and it’s situated in the former North America. Panem is run by an authoritarian-totalitarian dictatorship in the in the Capitol led by President Snow. The capitol is a technologically advanced, utopian city where the nation 's most wealthy and powerful live. The nation of Panem is separated into a total of twelve nation-states known as districts. Each of the twelve districts is responsible for a certain production of a special good for an example in district 12 they specialize in coalmining. Together all of the districts work to provide something for the capitol. The districts do barely interact with each other due to it being illegal, and therefore, each district has a selection of different culture and values. Welfare levels depend on the goods that each district produces and is vary significantly, districts, such as 10, 11 and 12, are rather poor and have to work long hours to provide food for themselves and their familys. The richer districts like 1, 2, and 4, though are rich but not nearly as wealthy as the Capitol itself. The Capitol is ruling government of Panem and holds total political and economic dominance over the region, enforcing its rule through an army of Peacekeepers, capital punishment, propaganda, and the Hunger Games. The hunger games Every year, much …show more content…

Haymitch are the districts 12’s mentor and therefor he has to mentor Katniss and Peeta. Haymitch is the only winning competitor from district 12 still living. Since winning the 50th Hunger Games, it has been his job to train the tributes from District 12 each year. He is a middle-aged man who is always very drunk, but, after seeing some potential in Katniss and Peeta, he decides that he will sober up enough to mentor them and help them survive the Games. Haymitch proves to be a great advocate and guides the pair through a clever and highly unorthodox strategy that proves