Characteristics Of Totalitarian Government In The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins

In the novel, The Hunger Games written by Suzanne Collins is a dystopian young adult book that is based in Panem that is divided into twelve districts. Each year the districts have to send a boy and a girl into an arena to fight to the death. The novel’s protagonist is Katniss, who lives in the poorest district. Katniss makes the audience think of the important ideas of bravery, societal class and love.

The first book in the Hunger Games trilogy has sold over 28 million copies in the U.S alone and an astonishing 65 million copies total across all three novels. The Hunger Games is a clear example of how a corrupted government can negatively impact the world. This fictitious novel is set in Panem, a country that is separated into thirteen poor districts and the very wealthy Capitol. Every year, the Capitol forces every district to send two kids ages 12-18 to fight in what is called the Hunger Games; a brutal fight to the death. This is what the Capitol does to show the districts that they are the follows to the almighty leader as well as provide entertainment.

The hunger games also are based in a futuristic society as applies to the book the Fahrenheit 451. The setting in the novel is one of complete disarray in the order of the society as is the case in the novel the Fahrenheit 451. The Hunger Games is a dystopian novel, but its content is far more political than any other novels written in the twenty-first century. The novel revolves around a young female teenager who is engaged in a young triangle with other two young men. The young men are Peeta Mellark and her best friend, Gale. The main idea, however, is the task that the young teenager, who happens to be the main character is faced with. Katniss Everdeen as is the name of the girl, is faced with the task of uniting her Falk in an uprising against the cruel system of administration which happens to be taking advantage of the other population (Dubrofsky

Human interaction, culture and the ways of living within a society can be altered in order for the rehabilitation of humanity to proceed. The Hunger Games is based on what was once North America now called Panem, a nation separated into twelve districts, each functioning individually but all connected and dictated by President Snow. The division between districts within the capitals jurisdiction causes chaos which is created by the hierarchy of power, creating an unstable city and leaving the rich to profit off the poor through oppression. Human behavior and humanity are displayed throughout The Hunger Games but it is predominantly shown between the function and the structure of the actual games, the districts, their cultures, the main character, how she is a feminist in a post-apocalyptic world. The Hunger Games is a complex study of Anthropology.

Jacob Pike Benjamin Garrett English 9 Honors Friday 19th 2024 Capitol Control Is watching children as young as 12 fight to the death normal? A normal person would say no, but a citizen of Panem, they would have to disagree. This is because in Panem, a city in The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, the people are fed propaganda by their own government. Their government is called the “Capitol” and they control all of the 12 districts in Panem. In the novel, the Capitol is notorious for doing unfavorable things and are very inconsiderate to their citizens.

The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, is a book about a crazy reality show where people fight for their lives. When two people are picked from District Twelve, they are forced to compete in a game, and there can only be one victor. Suzanne Collins uses different settings in the Hunger Games to show how those with wealth and power get more and keep their power to stay on top. The first setting Collins uses to make her point is District 12.

Expanding government control over the individual prompts human-rights infringement and institutionalized oppression. The government in question is The Capitol, who are the institution that Katniss Everdeen is struggling against. They are a technologically advanced, utopian city that houses the country’s most wealthy and influential people live. The Capitol is simply the name of the government of Panem. As the center of power in Panem, the country’s twelve districts are controlled there, as well as the location of the Hunger Games. It is a tyrannical dictatorship that is headed by President Snow, he has total political and economic control over the districts which he enforces by his army of Peacekeepers, also by propaganda and capital punishment.

The Hunger games, a novel written by Suzanne Collins, takes place in the nation of Panem (sited in the ruins of North America). Panem arose after many natural disasters and wars and is

The Hunger Games is a dystopian trilogy written by Suzanne Collins. It was originally published on September, 2008 and the story takes place in Panem, a nation formed from a post-apocalyptic North America.

Although the government in The Hunger Games paints an extreme totalitarian government, the idea of government corruption is still present in our society today, even in America. Governments are far from perfect and the American government is riddled with lobbyists that sway decisions in their favor and place their needs over the commonwealth’s. Gary Hart, a former US senator, recalls his time in office and observes that the US government is “perversely and systematically dedicated to special interests, earmarks, side-deals, log-rolling, vote-trading, and sweetheart deals.” These terms share an overall theme of exchanging favors, offering deals too good to pass up or funneling money into corporations to secure a vote. It becomes harder to believe that the government is operating in a democratic way. Money, rather than the desire to improve the country, plays a significant role in running the country. Bribery and underhand dealings for favors and political rivalry prevent progress and improvements. Social welfare programs funded by lobbyists, which are meant to help common Americans, are only funneling money to governors to persuade them to make or break certain executive decisions. Such dealings are dubbed “dark money” and allow “corporations to push past legal barriers and gather enormous influence” (Hart, 2015, p.2). Furthermore, President Obama finds it hard to implement any of his plans to control gun violence or reduce taxes partly because the majority of Congress members

Dystopian literature is often presented in the way where the main character has to endure the harsh and limited way of living present to them by the government, it usually explores the ways that the overpowering government uses their power to control their citizens. George Orwell’s 1984,Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games, Veronica Roth's Divergent by and Lois Lowry’s Divergent all show how the totalitarian government works and possible ways that it can be presented,mostly through the use of fear, restriction of freedom, isolation history, memory. While these are just the major characteristics presented in the novels , there are other similarities shown in all four novels which will be discussed later on. They show and warn the readers on

In 2008, Suzzane Collins’ published “The Hunger Games,” which takes place in an undefined future of the United States. This new country is known as Panem, which once held thirteen districts and the Capital; now, it only holds twelve districts and the capital. District Thirteen is the reason why Panem has a yearly event called the Hunger Games. District Thirteen started a war in an attempt to overthrow the Capital. In return, the Capital demolished all of District Thirteen.

In The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins expresses two themes. The first one is that we can’t let the government use their power to treat, and use people like they want, they are oppressing them. “At one o’clock, we head of the square. Attendance is mandatory unless you are on deaths door. This evening, officials will come around and check to see if this is the case. If not you will be imprisoned.” (Collins, 16) we can see that the Capitol forces the people to participate in the reaping by threatening them. “When I was younger, I scared my mother to death, the things I would blurt out about District 12, about the people who rule our country, Panem, from the far-off city called the Capitol. Eventually I understood this would only lead us to

“So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong” (Collins, 2). In this moment, not only citizens, but neighbors, friends, family, neighborhood, look up at Katniss knowingly in pure frustration and empty hearts that their humanity is slowly slipping away before them and there is nothing no one can do about it. Susan Collins creates a government that generates fear to the citizens who live in a pain, fear filled dystopia. A dystopia, a society characterized by human misery, oppression, disease, and overcrowding sums up Panem and its districts accurately. The central government that

The Hunger Games promotes the idea of a total government control. The Capitol controls everything that the twelve districts do. The world of Panem is divided into 12 districts where each district has its own role to fulfill from luxury to coal mining. "Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch. This is the Capitol's way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy" (Collins 18). This shows that the districts all pay a yearly sacrifice to the Capitol in the form of tributes. Another of showing that the Games is a dystopian society is that any evidence of an act of rebellion will result in the government having to kill anyone who gets in their way. "Look how he take your children and sacrifice them there is nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District 13" (18).