People of The Capital (Hunger Games Post 1 Prompt 2)

  "Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena"
(pg 354)

  The people they are talking about are the people of the Capital. The dying girls and boys in the arena are the tributes from each district. That shows how the people of the capital only care about them selves. After the district war, they forced the districts into the competing for survival in the hunger games. The capital watches the hunger games as if they are a sport, but from a different perspective of a tribute. It is a death sentence.

  They love to watch the tributes slowly murder each other until there is only one person left. If the fight would get to boring they would probably be say,"Eh, not enough violence. Let's just kill somebody." That shows how cruel they are to the districts. They only care about them selves, as they watch others suffer. If the district you elong to didn't put up a good show and not win, not only would their tributes probably die. They would have to suffer another year of poverty.

  As the capital living in luxury happily watching the sick game they call the hunger games, districts like district 12 are starving, fighting for their food, and sending two tributes to be send to be slaughtered in the games.

  This book hints to how the world sort of is now. It's not as cruel as the capital to the districts. People in the real world aren't sending people to play games that will end their life, and that's their way of controlling them. The world is the same as in the book when you think of the people and children living in poverty. While other have huge meals every night and are totally wealthy.

  Also, in previous lessons in class we learned about child soldiers and how they are being forcefully recruited and sent into battle. How they lose their childhood. Isn't that similar to the book in a way? When you think of the child soldiers as the tributes it is very similar. Not too long ago people didn't know that was going on. Some people did. Now many people know about it. There isn't enough being done about it. Could the Capital be compared to America when you think about it? People just sit by as children die. "Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena" (354)

Sorry for this post being late. =)