A Dystopian World

    For those who don't know the hunger game is basically a fallen U.S. dystopian that has twelve districts. Each districts have its own wealth and problems, Katniss, the main character, lives in the poorest district, district twelve. Each year the government called the capital holds an annual Hunger Games in which a boy and a girl's name from each district will be drawl from a bowl. They will then have to participate in the huger games and compete to the death until there is one winner. Kaniss's sisters name gets pulled and she ends up volunteering to take her place in the games, Peeta being the boy that was pulled. I found three things that i found quite intriguing while reading The Hunger Games by Suzzane Collins.

    The relationships in the book felt more real than in the movie, specifically between Rue, Peeta and Katniss. To start off one major difference was the bread scene between Peete and Katniss. In the movie it is shown as a negative event where Peeta just tossed Katniss a loaf a bread in the mud like a dog and she hated how she was treated and held that opinion of Peeta throughout the movie. In the book Peeta is actually seen with an awfully bruised face where his mom smacked him for "accidentally" burning the bread and gave it to Katniss and she always felt conflicted due to her feeling grateful for it, but she wouldn't be able to repay him for what he did. In both the hunger games movie and book Rue and Katniss make an alliance and bond. Rue and Katniss's relationship felt more meaningful in the book because Katniss constantly relates this little twelve-year-old girl to her sister Prim, and both trust each other completely. Rue and Katniss sleep in a tree for protection and Rue completely falls asleep on Katniss's lap which one would not be without the feeling of safety. I felt Rues death hurt a bit more in the book than the movie. I am notoriously a wimp when it comes to sad things in movies and am 100% a crier. What makes it worse is when it includes children and animals so this did hit one of those spots. As I've stated Rue was just twelve years old and she dies in a pretty brutal way and Katniss witnesses it. She kills Rue's murderer and in a moment of empathy she holds Rue in her arms, brushes her hair out of her face, and sings to her until she passes. Obviously, this is depressing and i may or may not have shed a tear but beside the point it was very heart touching that after she died Katniss places an array of colorful flowers on and around her to show the respect she had for her. In the movie it still hurt but the way they filmed it, it wasn't just from Katniss's perspective they showed Rues perspective of looking at Katniss's face, the trees, then lastly the beautiful rays of sun until her eyes fluttered shut.

    Another thing i found interesting is Katniss doesn't cope with any of the horrible things that has happened around her. She has a habit of just throwing it on the backburner and deal with it later. The first time this happens is when her father dies in a coal mine explosion, and she sees her mom fall into a deep depression leaving Katniss to provide for the family. Sense she had to step up into this role when she was so young, I believe that this is how she sees her trauma, as something that needs to be ignored and that she views it as she is provider and should have those feelings. In the first book she ended up resenting her mother for this and never really talked to her about it. The second time is when Rue died, this is significant because this is when Katniss finally let herself cry. She then didn't let herself cry once after Rues death even though she was forced to kill people, watch people die, and leave her home and family. Even though Katniss has a hatred for the games she showed sympathy to people in the arena, the very people who were trying to killer her. When she was sitting with deceased Rue, she looked over at the man she killed in retaliation and felt no hatred for a moment. She looked at him and realized he was in the same vote as her, he also wanted to live, she then turned her hatred to the capital, despising them.

    Leading onto the government i have so many questions about it. I am currently in a government class, and it's got me wondering what type of government the capital is. There's no accurate one because it hadn't stated how the president came to be if he was elected or got the title form a parent. So, I've taken the liberty upon myself and labeled it a fallen democracy because it takes place in a fallen U.S. What is the benefit to letting tones 23 people each year to die in the arena? For 75 years they did the games that's 1725 deaths minus Peeta because both Katniss and Peeta made it out. Not to mention the sheer amount of people that die from starvation and hypothermia each year. The fact that the capital makes kids twelve through eighteen participate in the hunger games. Each district is heavily guarded leaving it very difficult to hunt for your food. When someone is on the verge of starvation the government will not help unless you volunteer to put your name in the drawing even more just so they can eat. I realize there's quite a lot related to food including each district gets its own type of bread. That way Katniss was able to figure out Rues district sent her a loaf of bread. So to prevent this from getting too long i will go ahead and cut my thoughts off from there.