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The Dystopia of The Hunger Games

A dystopia is a society characterized by human misery, oppression, disease, and overcrowding. The condition of life is extremely bad because people face a dehumanized and fearful life as from deprivation, terror, totalitarian governments, poverty and societal collapse.

The novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a clear example of a dystopia. The book is about a futuristic dystopian society where an overpowering government controls the lives and resources in twelve different districts.

Evidence:

• “Our part of District 12 is usually crawling with coal miners… Men and women with hunched shoulders, swollen knuckles, many who have long since stopped trying to scrub the coal dust out of their broken nails, the lines of their sunken faces.” (Page 4)

• “Separating the Meadow from the woods, in fact enclosing all of District 12, is a high chain-link fence topped with barbed-wire loops.” (Page 4)

• “We have so little of communication with anyone outside our district. In fact, I wonder if the Gamemakers are blocking out our conversations… they don’t want people in different districts to know about one another.” (Page 203)

There are twelve districts, where most people barely have enough money for food. The goods produced in the districts are primarily for the Capitol’s gain; while citizens of the districts starve the Capitol enjoys abundant food. Indeed, the primary function of the districts is to serve the Capitol.

Evidence:

• “Rue’s eyes widen. –Oh, no, we’re not allowed to eat the crops… They wipe you and make everyone else watch.” (Page 2012)

• “If you are poor you can opt to add your name more times in exchange for tesserae. Each tessera is worth a meager year’s supply of grain and oil for one person.” (Page 13)

• “All year, the Capitol will show the winning district gifts of grain and oil and even delicacies like sugar while the rest of us battle starvation.” (Page 19)

There was once a thirteenth district that was destroyed because of the attempted rebellion, now the children of the remaining twelve districts must pay the price. Each year a boy and a girl from each district are chosen by lottery to be sent to the Capitol. Once there, they will be confined in an arena and forced to fight to the death until a victor is crowned. The event is called the Hunger Games and is televised for everyone in the Capitol to see; the winning tribute is given food and a life of ease for themselves and their families, along with presents of food and resources for their district. This “reaping” is meant to serve as a punishment for the rebellion of the districts, a way for the Capitol to exert its control.

Evidence:

• “After the reaping, everyone is supposed to celebrate. And a lot of people do, out of relief that their children have been separated for another year.” (Page 10)

• “In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate.” (Page 19)

• “… this is the Capitol way to reminding us how totally we are at their mercy. How little chance we would stand of surviving another rebellion.” (Page 18)

In the Capitol the citizens go to parties and drink cocktails that make them throw up so they can eat more while the rest of the country is literally dying of starvation. Also they enjoy of luxuries and technology that the districts can't.

Evidence:

• “The cameras haven’t lied about its grandeur. If anything, they have no quite capture the magnificence of the glistening buildings in rainbow of hues that tower in the air, the shiny cars that roll down the wide paved streets, the oddly dressed people with bizarre hair and painted faces who have never missed a meal.” (Page 59)

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