The coal mine is an example forced labor by the district, the capital makes it so the only way someone could survive in the districts is too do the only job available to them, a coal miner. This only makes the capital richer because they pay the miners a very low income based on how much they mine and how much they work. Also the miners are looked upon as “lowlifes” as they don’t have much of a career choice for them, and they look dirty and unhealthy by the people of the capitol. This could be shown on page 5 “Men and women with hunched shoulders, swollen knuckles, many who have long since stopped trying to scrub the coal dust out of their broken nails, the lines of their sunken faces.” This shows that miners both feel, and are worthless and
