“The rich keep getting richer” this is a very common phrase in today’s society. The middle and poor class are struggling to put food on the table while the rich are getting plastic surgery. This is a common comparison to the book The Hunger Games by Suzanna Collins. Where the Capital of Panem has more money than they need, and the poor district is struggling to stay alive. Panem is a nation that arose in the ruins of North America. Controlled by a very powerful Capital with twelve outlying districts. Every year the Capital punishes the districts with the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is when every district has to send one boy and one girl tribute to go fight to the death in a arena and the whole thing is broadcast live all over the nation
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In the article “The New Face of Hunger”, “The number of people going hungry has grown dramatically in the U.S increasing to 48 million by 2012”(McMillan). This statistic is unbelievable. The United States of America is supposed to be the greatest country in the world! How is that when 48 million people are still hungry? This may be due to the fact that many people in the United States, much like the people in district twelve in Panem, do not make enough money to feed themselves and their families. In the article “The New Face of Hunger”, the Jefferson family is a prime example of how very real this struggle is. While they continue to work to provide it’s still not enough, “Though all three adults work full-time, their income is not enough to keep the family consistently fed without assistance”(McMillan). McMillan is showing that even people who work everyday to try and support their family still don’t make enough money to put food on the table. Which makes buying enough food to keep families fed, very laborious. So while families continue to work hard in attempt to feed themselves, the United States somehow continues to waste food. As horrible as it may seem, “In the USA, 30-40% of the food supply is wasted, equaling more than 20 pounds of food per person per month”(UNEP). Many families still remain hungry yet somehow we still continue to waste so much food. Since when did hard work not provide, and when did wasting food become so
In the article “The New Face of Hunger”, “The number of people going hungry has grown dramatically in the U.S increasing to 48 million by 2012”(McMillan). This statistic is unbelievable. The United States of America is supposed to be the greatest country in the world! How is that when 48 million people are still hungry? This may be due to the fact that many people in the United States, much like the people in district twelve in Panem, do not make enough money to feed themselves and their families. In the article “The New Face of Hunger”, the Jefferson family is a prime example of how very real this struggle is. While they continue to work to provide it’s still not enough, “Though all three adults work full-time, their income is not enough to keep the family consistently fed without assistance”(McMillan). McMillan is showing that even people who work everyday to try and support their family still don’t make enough money to put food on the table. Which makes buying enough food to keep families fed, very laborious. So while families continue to work hard in attempt to feed themselves, the United States somehow continues to waste food. As horrible as it may seem, “In the USA, 30-40% of the food supply is wasted, equaling more than 20 pounds of food per person per month”(UNEP). Many families still remain hungry yet somehow we still continue to waste so much food. Since when did hard work not provide, and when did wasting food become so