The book “The Hunger Games” is about a society in which the citizens are sectioned off into 12 districts. The capitol does all they can to control them and one of the primary methods is the hunger games. In the hunger games the capitol annually enters all the children’s names ages 12-18 into a lottery, where one girl and one boy will be randomly selected to compete. The ones that are chosen will have to battle against each other till the death in treacherous conditions while the whole country of Panem watches on television. In the book the characters were revolutionary and took risk, they didn’t let the capitol (no matter how much they attempted to) control their every thought and action and sometimes stood up for what they believed was the
We discover a protagonist who, although deeply aware of injustices, is too conscious of her family’s safety to openly speak her mind: “Eventually I understood this would only lead us to more trouble.”(p. 7). At this point in time, Katniss’s fear, engineered by the Capitol, is controlling her. And although Katniss disobeys the rules by escaping the boundaries of District 12 to go hunting, her motivation resides only in her need to feed her family. Her illegal bounty is sold on the black market. Thus, Katniss’s disobedience ultimately serves to gratify the Capitol’s Peacekeepers (“…they’re among our best customers.” (p. 6)), and ironically reinforces the Capitol’s power by emphasizing the divide between the hungry and the well-fed in District 12.
She sometimes expresses a desire to have power over her oppressors, for instance she wishes she could kill an overseer with her eyes as we are told Nunu has done. However, Shola never makes any attempts to gain such powers, she merely wishes for them. She seems almost content in her role as a slave, and Shango is her only link to the realization of the evils of slavery. However, after Shango gives her the Sankofa bird, she retains this new defiance and even starts attending rebellion meetings. Sankofa is the symbol of looking towards the past before considering the future.
While there are many similarities between the two novels, there are also many differences. One of the differences is punishment. In The Hunger Games, if someone does something wrong, they are not always caught and punished. Katniss snuck over the fence to hunt for food, and when she went to the market to sell the food she caught, even the mayor of District 12 didn’t care where it came from. In Fahrenheit 451, if someone breaks the law that person is caught and immediately punished.
This rebellion was not allowed by society and the Handicapper General, Diana Moon Glampers. “Harrison’s scrap-iron handicaps crashed to the floor,” (25). He ripped his and a ballerina’s handicaps off, had musicians play music without handicaps’ and doing so, Harrison illustrated his quality of being a non-conformist in this short story. Vonnegut crafted Harrison, a rebel in this story, to illustrate the irony that governmental control of a society and equality ruins individualism. Hazel is neither a non-conformist or conformist in Vonnegut’s short story.
The Capitol wants to have the feeling that they are in control, but Katniss keeps doing things harmlessly (most), and throwing off the Capitol. First off, you aren’t allowed to travel beyond the fences, but Katniss goes in the woods mostly every day, to hunt, and support her family. Her mother isn’t able to support her sister and her, because all the time she looks depressed, because of the passing of her husband. Another act of rebellion would be how Katniss wore the mockingjay pin, signifying a respect for Rue’s death. The Capitol sees this as very deadly, because usually, no tribute has respect for another when they are deceased.
Another example of sacrifice in the novel is when katniss and Gale sacrifice their life when they secretly enter the woods. This shows how much they value their life and are willing to risk themselves and their families by hunting prohibited animals. The hunting of course not only to provide their families with better alimentation, but to trade in the black market for better things in
In The Hunger Games, Katniss has to look for her own food and be her own doctor while in the arena. In Rash, Bo is serving time for violating laws, while Katniss is fighting for her and Peeta's life to make sure they both get home in one piece. Another difference is that in Rash, Bo has family support from his Gramps and his mom and he knows that even if he gets killed by polar bears, his Gramps and mom will be alright and will be able to take care of themselves. Katniss doesn't have that luxury, as she took care of the family, feeding them and providing for them, and if she dies, then soon, her family will too. As you can see, there are also many differences between Rash and The Hunger Games.
In The Hunger Games, government control worked differently by having the Capitol, as the government city, wealthy with unlimited access to food and supplies, while leaving each district fighting for food in different ways of making money such as mining, fishing, and farming. There are boundaries around each district that you are not allowed to travel out of resulting in death. The Government hosts the annual Hunger Games throwing two people, a boy and girl, from each district into a capitol made stadium in a fight to the death battle aired on television for entertainment. Our government is nothing like this but you can relate how the government makes the rules are if you do not follow them you are punished. There are a lot of laws that people disagree with but have to live with
When George realizes that Curley is going to kill l Lennie but not in an unpainful way and slow way, George realizes that the only way to stop Curley from brutally killing Lennie is to steal Carlson's luger and kill Lennie Himself, George knew he was going to die anyway. 15. Curleys wife is not an evil person, she is just trying to get people to notice her. She is lonely because she is forced to stay in the house alone. Curley does not want her to talk to any of the guys working on the farm.