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Compare And Contrast Animalitarianism In The Hunger Games

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The main character Katniss from the novel The Hunger Games also has to endure an extremely tyrannical society. The children of the districts are forced to put their names in a lottery every year once they come to a certain age to be thrown into an arena to fight to the death with the other children of the districts. They are forced to do this because of a long past rebellion against the Capitol, as a reminder that the Capitol cannot be beat. The winner receives riches and food for themselves and their families, while the people in their district and the rest continue to starve and struggle to live with the little the “Capitol” allows them (Collins). The societies in both of these novels are held back from their own personal desires and needs to enforce the law and will of the dystopian authority. Novels like these seem to be giving a us in the real world a look of how things could be if certain things continue the way they are. Both main characters of these novels go through a self-awareness that is helped along by the people they encounter. This gives the audience a way to relate to the characters because they too go through things in their reality that may cause them to re-evaluate the way they think and believe. Throughout her story, Katniss encounters many feelings she has never known before. She is still very young and is just coming into to her own as a woman. She also has to struggle with a leaving her family and facing the reality that she will have to kill someone

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