The Hunger Games: How Class And Race Are Expressed Through Young Adult Media

The Hunger Games: How Class and Race are Expressed Through Young Adult Media The film Hunger Games gives many great insights to America's culture and its myths. We see strong examples of class struggle and struggles of race as each of the districts live in poverty to serve their capital. While in a fictional universe of its own, the geography, cultural issues, and setting is that of the USA. The film is set in a distant future of America where a rebellion leads to an annual paget known as The Hunger Games. Over the course of the film, we see many American myths come into play. Class and race are the strongest themes in this film.

The color schemes, sets, locations, framing, soundtrack all play a part into giving the film its meaning and shape.

It's not synonymous with death, it's synonymous with being even richer and more privileged than you are. They have the money and the time and the privilege to train for it without fear of their livelihood being ruined, which is kind of like when Mantiois says in How the Other Half Banks, “Without a financial cushion, every mistake, unexpected problem, or minor life change can quickly turn into a financial disaster”(pp 401). Where people with more money have more time. The poor districts don't have the resources to train to be killing machines in district 12; they don't work in the mines until they turn 18 so that they pass the reaping age. Any skills that they get from mining using axes or mining equipment they can't use in The Hunger Games because by the time they learn the skills they're too old to be in The Hunger Games. But in the other districts they can use skills in the games such as in District 11 the climbing of the trees and the forest knowledge and like signaling that Rue has she can use in The Hunger Games. She had more Hunger Games skills than a 12-year-old from District 12 would

It's presented much like a reality TV show in that the most popular character has a chance of surviving much greater than a peer who has real survival skills. Because the Hunger Games is simply meant to entertain the capital, and scare the districts. When the author of the original books, Suzanne Collins threw a romance plot line in, she was demonstrating to her audience how easily we are blind to horrors in our world with simple things like love stories. Both the capital and the Rebellion use romance as a form of propaganda and we're being told that it distracts the public and then as we read the books we think that we're somehow an exception to this propaganda thing as if we cannot be affected by the romance plot line ourselves so when we're watching the movies in the books all of the show and flare that we think we're immune to that the capital is using we're really not because you know when you talk about The Hunger Games you ask if your team Peter or team Gale you don't talk about the politics. I don't know if that's because people aren't interested in politics or because they don't notice it underneath the romance thing. It took someone pointing that out to me so I didn't see it initially. If we're not affected by poverty and hunger, we would believe what we’re being told about the world around us.