For my text review I chose to analyze the Hunger Games. In this dystopian novel there are twelve districts and the capitol. The twelve districts are much less affluent than the capitol, with district one being the richest and twelve being the poorest. Each year the capitol hosts the hunger games where two children from each district are chosen to fight to the death with one victor at the end. The novel has many themes with one being power. None of the citizens living in the capitol are required to enter in the hunger games. The citizens in the capitol have power over the people from the twelve districts because they are wealthier and of a higher class. I think this parallels with our society today. More affluent Americans do not have to endure any real struggles as they are handed all the resources to stay in a higher class than others. Less affluent people are stuck in a cycle as they do not have the best resources such as access to the best education. It is not their fault for being born into this cycle much like it is not the fault of the citizens of the twelve districts to be born into potential hunger games participants. This idea also relates to the fact that in most years, the wealthier districts like district one, two and three, are usually the victors at the end of the hunger games. They are the wealthier districts which one again demonstrates the advantages of coming from a higher class. This relates to a topic we learned this semester called the “One” and the “Other.” In the hunger games, the “One” is the capitol and the districts are the “Other.” This means that the citizens of the districts are treated differently and looked down upon by the citizens of the capitol.
