The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games.... where do I begin? Katniss, the narrator, the main character, when she describes herself to us through the book you can't help but root for her. Although as a class we discussed that we knew she was going to be in the hunger games. I find it interesting that as readers we can't help but root for her, but through the whole story Haymitch is telling her that she needs to be personable for people to root for her. The idea of having the hunger games is just awful to me, is man that self centered that they cannot remember a war, or what happened to district 13? That is like forgetting what happened in World War 2! Forgetting what we did and the things that happened to people. The hunger games is supposed to symbolize everyone fighting against each other and that no matter what almost everyone dies. Katniss Everdeen decides that in the end she can go against the system in the hunger games, which are set up by the capitol. There is usually only one winner in the hunger games and it goes to those who have trained their whole lives for this. This would symbolize those countries that work all their lives to be warriors. To me this takes you back to Athens and Sparta, where they trained boys all their lives to be warriors. This was thrown out because this didn't work, so why would we bring this type of society back to districts. In the end Katniss will throw off the system by trying to save not only herself but the boy from her district as well. No one in the history of the hunger games has shown compassion, it is because so many are trained to kill. To the capitol this is not seen as an act of compassion, it is seen as an act of defiance. 

To me this one act of compassion inspires people. It obviously is going to inspire people. People are sick of watching people they know die at the hands of the capitol. This act of compassion shows just how wrong the capitol has been. They see that this is used as a tool to keep the down in fear of the capitol.