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The Hunger Games : Civil Disobedience And Conformity In The Hunger Games

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The Hunger Games Civil Disobedience and Conformity To begin with, The Hunger Games is the first book in the Hunger Games Trilogy, and is written by Suzanne Collins. First off, the novel takes place in Penem, a make-believe future where the Capital is surrounded by districts. The Districts are like slaves to the Capital, give away resources to the Capital and only keep some resources to themselves; so you can imagine that the districts are very poor. The Capital also forces the districts to give up one boy and girl to go to annual Hunger Games, so to prevent War. Katniss, the main character in the book, ends up being part of the hunger games alongside with Peeta. Katniss then has to fight for her life because there may only be one victor. Lastly, throughout this book you’ll see conformity and civil disobedience play a huge role in the Hunger Games. Additionally, people conform due to fear, and having a sense belonging; when people do this they become the same as everyone else. People conform in America and in The Hunger Games because they may be afraid of what people will do to them. In The Hunger Games they conform because they are afraid of the peace keepers, and in America we conform because we're afraid of how others will react to our opinion of things. For some, if the opinion is not relevant to their way of thinking, then they are wrong, and the people get shut down. In America people don't talk about the issues, just like in the book, not because people they’re

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