Suzanne Collins in her novel The Hunger Games offers a critique on Western culture and civilization. In this novel through the portrayal of dystopian society that is driven by technology and consumerism Suzanne Collins explores and advocates against the commodification of youths and neglect for environment. The Hunger Games, first of a trilogy, set in a time after environmental havoc and massacre, replaced by a dystopian country Panem, comprised of 12 suffering districts ruled by the Capitol city. Panem is a “country that rose up out of the ashes of a place that was once called North America…a shining Capitol ringed by thirteen districts” (Collins, p.18). However, the rebellion of thirteen districts against Capitol brought chaos within once
