Practice Essay- How does the Capitol control the people of Panem in the Hunger Games? The novel written by Suzanne Collins is about a 16 years old girl Katniss Everdeen and people of Panem struggling to stay alive in the annual Hunger Games and as well as surviving the daily conditions in the hometown of district 12. Panem is under the rule of the Capitol. Throughout the novel the Capitol is seen as very cruel and controlling. There are many examples of how the Capitol controls the people of Panem such as the Hunger Games, Reality TV, and control of food.
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After Templesmith said that they are all invited to a feast at the main entrance, where every District will have something they desperately need inside each backpack. She immelatly said it must be “Something to heal Peeta’s leg”(274). She goes alone knowing she must face everyone else to help get the medicine to save Peeta’s life who has been badly injured. When she gets there, she gets stabbed in the forehead by a flying knive from another tribute but she made it back alive with the medicine to help Peeta. Finally Katniss pretends to be in love with Peeta just to keep them both alive in the arena and to gain the audiences.
And may the odds be ever in your favor.” She is chosen to go alongside the son of District Twelve’s bakers, Peeta Mellark. After the reaping, she and Peeta are sent to the capitol, where they are prepared to face the capitol, their people, and above all the Hunger Games. Katniss then goes into the phase of the steps called ‘Refusal of call/reluctant hero’, thus is when the hero, Katniss refuses to believe that she is the true hero of the novel. Believing in herself was an unimportant task because we see, Katniss being discouraged and frail, believing she will never
The Hunger Games Imagine if you lived in a world, where you were thrown into an arena with 23 other contestants, and only one person comes out. Well this is exactly how Katniss; the protagonist, feels. In this great film, directed by Gary Ross, it is a futuristic setting, in which people now live in districts that used to be North America, which is now called Panem. Katniss and her district is said to be located on the eastern border of Panem. In The Hunger Games it tells a story about a girl Katniss and she has to goes through, in which a way she just has to discover herself, also to show that the government has control, they hold a competition in which children compete against each other, and only one victor comes out.
Out in Panem there are 12 districts; districts 1 through 12. Every year Panem holds what is called the Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live T.V. Two contestants, called tributes, from each district (boy and girl) get picked to participate in the Hunger Games. Every year, Effie Trinket chooses the person’s name randomly from a box. In district 12 there lives a girl named Katniss Everdeen.
We can apply this whole idea to Katniss as she is willing to take prims place when prim is chosen as a tribute for the Hunger Games. We can see how much she values prim and is therefore willing to sacrifice herself. Throughout the novel Katniss is faced with many situations in which she must sacrifice something. During the first part she generally sacrifices attachment to others in order to protect herself. She later has to sacrifice her identity in order to maintain an expected appearance on television.
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
DB Forum 3 My Case study MT. MORRIS TOWNSHIP, Mich. (ABC)- A 6 year-old boy accused of a fatal shooting of a classmate at Elementary school near flint, Mich., is too young to face criminal charges, persecutors said. Instead, persecutors will focus on how the child got the gun used in the killing, which may have occurred as a result of a playground scuffle. We’re looking to see how the kid got that gun and if we get to that person we will prosecute them to the Fullest extent of the law, Genesee County Prosecutor Arthur Bush told ABCNEWS, GOOD MORNING AMERICA. When Tamarla Owens’ 6 year-old son shot a classmate early this year in Flint, Mich., many wondered Just how that child could become a killer.
For example, when Lenina realizes that she likes John, who is from the Savage reservation, she cannot stop thinking about him. Fanny, Lenina’s friend, tells her to take Soma so she can be like everyone else; happy, cheerful and without any emotions.”Half a gramme had been enough to make Lenina forget her fears and her embarrassment” (Huxley 128). So when she finally takes the Soma, it helps her to fit in with her surroundings, pushing away any feelings of fright or humiliation. Another example is when the people from the New World use Soma during the orgy. During this orgy, a cup with strawberry ice-creamSoma is passed around, and everyone is supposed to drink it while saying, “I drink to my annihilation” (Huxley 54).