Poverty will always be an impenetrable obstacle in the eyes of our current society. However, being in the state of poverty is not the problem itself, but is rather the shared relationship between both the high and low economic classes. This liaison is explored in The Hunger Games trilogy, which includes The Hunger Games (1), Catching Fire (2), and MockingJay (3). These fictional novels tell the tale of a young girl’s progression in a dystopian society in which the Capitol, a city of richer-than-rich followers and an evil dictator, makes twelve smaller districts participate in a cruel event known as The Hunger Games. These “games” are televised all throughout Panem, the country in which the twelve districts and Capitol reside, where each district
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However, reading between the lines will reveal numerous illustrations of these two exact claims. “…the Capitol's firebombs obliterated the poor coal miners' houses in the Seam…” (Collins, 12). This quote explains that, with District 12 being only a town of poor coal miners, there was no other reason to destroy it other than to spite Katniss. But since the small village was considered impoverished, the decision was easy to make. An example of this, not being nearly as extreme, but radiating similar undertones, would be the government favoring the rich, for instance “While government programs for working or jobless Americans are under constant attack,… or at least lets them keep their earnings, tax free” (Blumgart, 1). This concept is built upon when Katniss visits District 12 after the bombing and sees that “The only area that escaped incineration was the Victor's Village…” (Collins, 12). The rich are being not only favored here, but protected as well. This can only be symbolism, as if it’s the Capitol’s way of saying “the wealthy will always be favored more than the poor, no matter what.” A real world occurrence of this, albeit watered down tremendously, would be the government supporting big businesses, rather than assisting small, family owned ones, and, “The research supports the theories of Economic Elite Domination, which says policy outcomes are influenced by those with wealth …‘tend to tilt towards the wishes of corporations and business and professional associations’” (Bondioli,
However, reading between the lines will reveal numerous illustrations of these two exact claims. “…the Capitol's firebombs obliterated the poor coal miners' houses in the Seam…” (Collins, 12). This quote explains that, with District 12 being only a town of poor coal miners, there was no other reason to destroy it other than to spite Katniss. But since the small village was considered impoverished, the decision was easy to make. An example of this, not being nearly as extreme, but radiating similar undertones, would be the government favoring the rich, for instance “While government programs for working or jobless Americans are under constant attack,… or at least lets them keep their earnings, tax free” (Blumgart, 1). This concept is built upon when Katniss visits District 12 after the bombing and sees that “The only area that escaped incineration was the Victor's Village…” (Collins, 12). The rich are being not only favored here, but protected as well. This can only be symbolism, as if it’s the Capitol’s way of saying “the wealthy will always be favored more than the poor, no matter what.” A real world occurrence of this, albeit watered down tremendously, would be the government supporting big businesses, rather than assisting small, family owned ones, and, “The research supports the theories of Economic Elite Domination, which says policy outcomes are influenced by those with wealth …‘tend to tilt towards the wishes of corporations and business and professional associations’” (Bondioli,