In The Hunger Games, author Suzanne Collins presents the idea that distractions led by cowardice and fear keep people from involving themselves in more important matters. Especially when people are fearful for something in the future.
In society people have things that they’d rather delay for as long as possible. They will be too distracted by the fact that they don’t want something to happen, that they don’t even realize that something is going on below the surface. For example in The Hunger Games, “say you are poor and starving as we were. You can opt to add your name more times in exchange for tesserae. Each tessera is worth a meager year’s supply of grain and oil for one person… What would it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where …show more content…
They hide behind a curtain of lies hoping it will protect them from the danger of the truth. They hide within the boundary of what’s safe and predictable just like, “Enclosing all of district twelve, is a high chain-link fence topped with barbed-wire loops. It’s supposed to be electrified twenty-four hours a day… but since we’re lucky to get two or three hours of electricity in the evenings, it’s usually safe to touch”. Even though the people of district twelve know the fence is usually safe to touch they stay inside the fence, hiding from what the world could be if they had the courage to step outside the boundary. This shows that their world is made of lies because the capitol is supposed to make the districts safe, but instead they protect people’s thoughts(they basically control what everyone has to think about them) and don’t actually do anything physically to protect them. These fake boundaries cause fear to the people and they decide to just go with it and keep their mind off of more important issues. As a society boundaries are set up everywhere that stop people from going any further, but if they pushed through the boundaries they could go as far as they wanted and accomplish so much more than they thought they …show more content…
They can’t see the difference between the truth and the false information being fed to them everyday. In the book Katniss wonders, “What do they do all day, these people of the capitol, besides decorating their bodies and waiting around for a new shipment of tributes to roll in and die?”. The citizens in the Capitol have the freedom to do whatever they want and the people of the districts get brought to the Capitol to fight to the death. The districts just go with the fact that what’s being done is fair because they rebelled and lost. However, the question to be asked is, is it really fair? In the Capitol they get to eat all they want and in the districts they starve and are forced to kill each other as children. The people of the districts do what the Capitol says for fear of the consequences, and they like to believe that the Capitol is right just so they don’t have to deal with it. They focus on what’s on their plate instead of looking at the entire feast. This is suggesting that in society people are so afraid of the consequences that they don’t take risks which could lead to solving a bigger
In society people have things that they’d rather delay for as long as possible. They will be too distracted by the fact that they don’t want something to happen, that they don’t even realize that something is going on below the surface. For example in The Hunger Games, “say you are poor and starving as we were. You can opt to add your name more times in exchange for tesserae. Each tessera is worth a meager year’s supply of grain and oil for one person… What would it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where …show more content…
They hide behind a curtain of lies hoping it will protect them from the danger of the truth. They hide within the boundary of what’s safe and predictable just like, “Enclosing all of district twelve, is a high chain-link fence topped with barbed-wire loops. It’s supposed to be electrified twenty-four hours a day… but since we’re lucky to get two or three hours of electricity in the evenings, it’s usually safe to touch”. Even though the people of district twelve know the fence is usually safe to touch they stay inside the fence, hiding from what the world could be if they had the courage to step outside the boundary. This shows that their world is made of lies because the capitol is supposed to make the districts safe, but instead they protect people’s thoughts(they basically control what everyone has to think about them) and don’t actually do anything physically to protect them. These fake boundaries cause fear to the people and they decide to just go with it and keep their mind off of more important issues. As a society boundaries are set up everywhere that stop people from going any further, but if they pushed through the boundaries they could go as far as they wanted and accomplish so much more than they thought they …show more content…
They can’t see the difference between the truth and the false information being fed to them everyday. In the book Katniss wonders, “What do they do all day, these people of the capitol, besides decorating their bodies and waiting around for a new shipment of tributes to roll in and die?”. The citizens in the Capitol have the freedom to do whatever they want and the people of the districts get brought to the Capitol to fight to the death. The districts just go with the fact that what’s being done is fair because they rebelled and lost. However, the question to be asked is, is it really fair? In the Capitol they get to eat all they want and in the districts they starve and are forced to kill each other as children. The people of the districts do what the Capitol says for fear of the consequences, and they like to believe that the Capitol is right just so they don’t have to deal with it. They focus on what’s on their plate instead of looking at the entire feast. This is suggesting that in society people are so afraid of the consequences that they don’t take risks which could lead to solving a bigger