Symbolism In The Hunger Games

Reflective Essay on the symbols of The Hunger Games Imagine life set up in districts working and being controlled by a hierarchy. Well, in the book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, life is a battle unless you are a part of the great and mighty capital. Where corruption comes to life and brings the unlucky together to fight against each other to amuse the great. Suzanne Collins demonstrates the way the symbols in the text show power, corruption, unity and equality. The capital has more power then one can handle. Imagine being controlled by one person, One entity. In The Hunger Games, the capital abuses the other 12 districts for resources and labor. Throughout the book we see how the lives of the other districts go on and how they struggle.

The book symbolizes how you have the capital, who has full control over the world. They have riches, modern homes, food, water and safe living. While on the darkside, known as the “twelve districts”, they have poor living conditions, low food, and many more terrible living standards. In the text, it teaches how the capital has beautiful colorful life, massive skyscrapers, fancy clothes and unlimited options for what they can buy and choose from. When this is compared to the districts, they are all gray and ugly, a seemingly dead, low life. They are forced to wear rugged clothes, they are very dirty, with little health, safety or care about who they are. Another show of corruption is the peacekeepers, they are designed to keep peace in the districts, but all they do is hurt the poor and protect the rich. Finally, this is how the corruption is demonstrated in the text and why I drew nice, fancy homes compared to tents and nice big beds compared to hard ground. Also, these pictures show the symbol of

The Hunger Games demonstrates unity against the games. For example when the reaping occurs in “district 12”, all the villagers kiss three fingers then raise them. This shows that they all agree against the capital and the games which take children's lives. Between all the districts, they demonstrate their support against the games. Another example of unity is when Katniss Everdeen teams up with Rue because even though they are two different districts they trust each other, and neither of them want to lose their lives. The text demonstrates many ways of combining communities, friends, loved ones, and family all together to stand for what is right, even though they have to fight to survive they all have the same goals to get a safe life. For example I drew the families standing hand in hand, because unity is the bringing of communities and families