“We're so self-important. So arrogant. Everybody's going to save something now. Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save the snails. And the supreme arrogance? Save the planet! Are these people kidding? Save the planet? We don't even know how to take care of ourselves; we haven't learned how to care for one another.” George Carlin. This is the brutal truth of the world we live in today; hardly anyone seems to value or respect each other. Yet not many of us choose to notice this let alone try to raise others attention to our behaviors. However, bestselling author Suzanne Collins, does just that. Author Suzanne Collins uses her talent of writing (novels) to open the reader’s (otherwise oblivious) mind to the tragic ways our own
…show more content…
For example, Katniss is awoken by the sound of other tributes running away from the sudden fire that set the arena ablaze. “The flames that bear down on me have an unnatural height, a uniformity that marks them as human-made, machine-made, Gamemaker-made. Things have been too quiet today. No deaths, perhaps no fights at all. The audience in the Capitol will be getting bored, claiming that these Games are verging on dullness. This is the one thing the Games must not do.” (Collins 173). Based on Katniss’s analysis of the situation, we can conclude that the Capitol is willing to do anything and everything they can to make the games more ‘interesting’. It’s evident that the gamemakers do not care about the safety of the tributes, in fact they would actually like to see them injured or at least in danger of being injured. This is obvious because they are willing to set fire to the arena in order to rise more action, even if it means harming or leading to the harm of a tribute. Another example of the Capitol’s willingness to risk the tributes lives for their own entertainment is when they decide to change the rules of the games (again); this time making it so that yet again, only one tribute can win. “I stare at Peeta in disbelief as the truth sinks in. They never intended to let us both live. This has all been devised by the Gamemakers …show more content…
This conflict is shown in many ways and brought up during many different parts of the book/story. For example, the Tesserae is a thing that only the poor have to worry about. Katniss learned this lesson when her father died and her family soon found themselves in desperate need of food. She then goes and gets her first tesserae in order to receive grain that can be used to help her family’s state of starvation. The consequence of using the tesserae is that their name is added yet again to the list of tributes for the reaping. The rich don’t have to worry about the tesserae at all let alone its consequences because they are able to afford their own food, sometimes even more food than they actually need. Also, the richer districts are usually better trained for the games. They can afford to spend time and money to train everyone in their district whose names may be drawn at the reaping. The poor don’t have this advantage because they are busy working so that they can eat and they can’t afford to spend money on training when some can’t even get a meal every night. These differences cause there to be a struggle between those in the richer districts and those in the poorer
For example, Katniss is awoken by the sound of other tributes running away from the sudden fire that set the arena ablaze. “The flames that bear down on me have an unnatural height, a uniformity that marks them as human-made, machine-made, Gamemaker-made. Things have been too quiet today. No deaths, perhaps no fights at all. The audience in the Capitol will be getting bored, claiming that these Games are verging on dullness. This is the one thing the Games must not do.” (Collins 173). Based on Katniss’s analysis of the situation, we can conclude that the Capitol is willing to do anything and everything they can to make the games more ‘interesting’. It’s evident that the gamemakers do not care about the safety of the tributes, in fact they would actually like to see them injured or at least in danger of being injured. This is obvious because they are willing to set fire to the arena in order to rise more action, even if it means harming or leading to the harm of a tribute. Another example of the Capitol’s willingness to risk the tributes lives for their own entertainment is when they decide to change the rules of the games (again); this time making it so that yet again, only one tribute can win. “I stare at Peeta in disbelief as the truth sinks in. They never intended to let us both live. This has all been devised by the Gamemakers …show more content…
This conflict is shown in many ways and brought up during many different parts of the book/story. For example, the Tesserae is a thing that only the poor have to worry about. Katniss learned this lesson when her father died and her family soon found themselves in desperate need of food. She then goes and gets her first tesserae in order to receive grain that can be used to help her family’s state of starvation. The consequence of using the tesserae is that their name is added yet again to the list of tributes for the reaping. The rich don’t have to worry about the tesserae at all let alone its consequences because they are able to afford their own food, sometimes even more food than they actually need. Also, the richer districts are usually better trained for the games. They can afford to spend time and money to train everyone in their district whose names may be drawn at the reaping. The poor don’t have this advantage because they are busy working so that they can eat and they can’t afford to spend money on training when some can’t even get a meal every night. These differences cause there to be a struggle between those in the richer districts and those in the poorer