Alyssa’s Comments (group member since Dec 22, 2013)

Alyssa’s comments from the On Tyrants & Tributes : Real World Lessons From The Hunger Games group.

And if it is not for the ones they love directly because they have no one like Joanna, they fight back for what they have lost or for what they had taken from them so that no one else will have to experience that like they did.

To me, to fight for my own liberty, there would have to be something else to motivate me. In Katniss' case, she had her family and initially, Prim to keep out of harms way. Next, it came to her having to pretend for the sake of keeping her family safe because without her, her family would fall apart. Then it moved towards getting Peeta back and keeping him safe. One does not fight for their own personal liberty, they fight for the liberty of the ones they love.

The poplar opinion of Barbarians as unworthy and stupid would go towards the lie that the Capitol created around district 13 saying that it was uninhabitable. But the uprising of 13 and the fall of the Capitol signifies the fall of Rome. But it does come full circle when there is to be one more round of the Hunger Games with the Children of the Capitol because it shows that in some ways, the barbarians are just as bad as the Romans.

Katniss wasn't originally a hero in the first book. While she was a hero to her younger sister, she wasn't the hero of Panem or even district 12. She became a hero without trying when she pulled the berries out of her pocket for her and Peeta at the end of the 74th games. But the entire series, Katniss doesn't want to be the figurehead for the entire rebellion, even after she knows that there is no other way. She would rather fight with Coin. There is a reason that Coin had preferred to have Peeta, because he was to be the true hero. Katniss was just at the right place at the right time. But no dounbtedly, Katniss is forced to become the hero at the end of the day.

In many of the dystopian novels Prof. Sturgis talks about, sex plays a major role in how it is a symbol of people not having any self morals or higher faith. In this book, it seems to be just as if the time they would have put towards sex, is put towards the fear of being tribute or that their child would be taken as tribute.