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What Would You Do To Resolve The Hunger Games Issue?
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I only finished the first film and plan on getting the first book soon so I'm a bit unsure but couldn't someone who won the hunger games use their name to give them power to speak against the hunger games as the winner of one of the games? I think that may work..
<>The survivor is supposed to be thankful for being alive when all others were sacrificed, a reminder of the Capitol's "forgiveness" for past rebellion and everyone else is supposed to be thankful for the "forgiveness".
That is a complicated one. I would try to unify against them the best I could, that is if I didn't become snowed by Snow. I would be rising above it as soon as I started to piece together what was happening and discover the light of liberty.
The Games serve 2 purposes.1) A punishment to keep the Districts in line. You'd either have to convince the Capitol residents that they should forgive the Districts after 75 years or else come up with some other means of punishment. 75 years might be enough to keep the current population in line but you've got to give the future population something to fear as well.
2) Entertainment. This is the easier one to address. Come up with something more compelling than the Games to watch.
I am assuming that the answer your looking for wouldn't be start a rebellion. The whole reason for the Hunger Games is for the citizens to fear the government, for the government to have complete control. So a replacement/solution (asumming the Capital wouldn't just forgive the citizens) would have to come up with something that the everybody would still fear... Maybe a stronger presents of police and harsher laws.
But the whole problem with this is, how does the Capital make themselves still look like they care? Because part of the Hunger Games is that the winner is rewarded, and the citizens that put their name in the bowl for reaping get food.
And as for the entertainment part of the Hunger Games, it's like what Monkeybench said, it's easier to come up with something more compelling than the Hunger Gamers to watch.
On a complete side note, does anyone know why it's called the Hunger Games? Is it because the Capital is hungry for more games?
Dannielle wrote: "On a complete side note, does anyone know why it's called the Hunger Games? Is it because the Capital is hungry for more games?" There is a lot of food references in the series - Peeta, Panem, Katniss, the facts that some of the districts are starving.
The reason most people think of why it's called the Hunger Games is because the kids get hungry in the arena, which of course is true but usually doesn't directly lead to their death.
I argue that it is called so because you can add your name in for every member of your family, and it increases as you grow older. The reason why citizens do this is because the government gives them more grain and oil to do so. Katniss had her name in three times when she was twelve (for a better-off twelve-year-old, they would have only had to do so once). The Hunger Games flourish because they prey off the needs of the poor people (those who cannot afford food), who are more likely to be drawn.
The problem with trying to end the Hunger Games is that you have to deal with Snow, a very corrupt politician (and of course the president of the blood-thirsty country). It is revealed that in order to make people to do what they want, they threaten to kill (and sometimes do) the loved ones of that person - a hunger games in of itself (as in the Hunger Games is worse than just killing off the district people's, they kill their children [which we learned in lecture], so instead of killing you for disobeying or something, they kill your family, lover, etc.)
I know rebellion is not the way to solve anything in this world. You must look at both options peace and war. Now say to your selves, if I chose war how would it affect the people. Well if you go to war your country will suffer and it will cause more problems, but if you choose peace you will not have the same number of problems that you would of had in war, but you will have situations. The point is that you have to do something that the congregation will suffer less and cause less commotion, but you will always have problem's. Life is not perfect.
Well without going into a spoiler alert here, I think I would take the exact route Katniss did. It was difficult and sad at some parts, but I believe she handled it is a great way. Even through constant struggles she persevered and gave her heart 100% to the improvement of her land. It was courageous and I hope in a real life situation, I would be able to do the same.
Yeah, I think that rebellion would be the best option. However, I would have tried a more subtle route, such as creating an underground communications network between the districts. I have a feeling that if the districts were in communication that things would have been quite different. The people wouldn't have had the same sense of isolation.
A rebellion wouldn't do much. The government is too big. You would have to somehow rally the districts together, but that would be impossible.
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