Hunger Games Social Inequality Analysis

The Hunger Games is film/book series set in a dystopian society believed to be future America. Panem, which is the name of the country that The Hunger Games is placed in, consists of 13 districts that all work together to supply for the capitol. To maintain control over the districts and remind the districts why they should not rebel, the annual “Hunger Games” were put in place. During the Hunger Games, two tributes between the ages of 12 and 18 are taken from each district and put in an arena to fight to the death. The last remaining child is named victor and is promised plenty of food and wealth for the remainders of their days. The Hunger Games are both appealing and appealing to its tributes because the promise of a good life is more than they could ever hope for. The people in the capitol and in the wealthier districts find the Hunger Games to be very …show more content…
“Social inequality occurs when resources in a given society are distributed unevenly, typically through norms of allocation, that engender specific patterns along lines of socially defined categories of persons.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_inequality) While many people in the lower districts are struggling for food and shelter and good clothing, the people in the capitol are doing barely any to no work at all. All the people in the lower districts do is work while the people in the highest districts and the capitol do is party, drink, and eat. They even have a drink that makes them throw up so that they can eat more food, yet people in the lower districts are starving and doing illegal things to try and get food. For example, Gale and Katniss had to hunt beyond the fences of district 12 just so that they could supply food to their families. Gale was even whipped in public once for carrying the turkey’s he killed through town because a new peacekeeper caught