The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins And Vonnegut: A Dystopian Society

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In a dystopian world, Collins and Vonnegut demonstrate a suppressive government that uses propaganda which is manufactured to control and manipulate citizens, creating the illusion of a perfect utopian society. In the dystopian book The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins shows how the government can gain control over its citizens with the help of propaganda. An example of this is when Katniss is explaining each school day in District 12, she mentions this: “Except for the weekly lecture on the history of Panem” (Collins 42). What Katniss is describing is the perfect form of propaganda in Panem, which is to start brainwashing kids at a young age so they start to believe what society tells them. When citizens are being forced into thinking in a certain