Thursday, May 14, 2009

Control in the Hunger Games

In my book 'The Hunger Games' the main themes are power and control. I will focus on the them of control. The main character in 'The Hunger Games', Katniss Everdeen, is always thinking about the idea of control. She thinks that the Capitol control everything and do whatever they want. The main the capitol keeps everyone under control is by showing everyone what they can do. They do this by creating the hunger games and making all the districts participate. So they have to put forward one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 to go to the capitol and fight to the death with other contenders. While in the hunger games the people in control has now gone to the gamemakers who are just another part in the capitol. The way they have control is that they could kill anyone at anytime with just a flick of a button. Katniss knows this and is therefore quite scared of them and of what they could do to her. Through out the book Katniss never gains control of anything. She is always under supervision of the gamemakers and they could kill her at any time. The only time that Katniss shows any sort of power or control is when she nearly kills herself at the end of the hunger games. When she does this it shows that the capitol or gamemakers does not have complete control over her and I expect this makes them annoyed. They will probably does something to her for taking the only thing that they have away from them, but this will have to happen in the second book.

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