Hungers Games #1

Violence, struggling, death, and survivall are all endless cycles which plague our everyday world. I bring this topic up because the book I am currently reading the book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. The book takes place in a distant future North America where it is basically divided into separate districts. The government forces two teenagers, one girl and boy, to fight to the death in the wilderness. They must hunt for their own food, water, whatever other few supplies are available to them. They also have access to weapons in order to protect themselves. The government forces the children to fight against each other in order to show the public that they have control over everyone even the children. It is both horrible and sad to see how the children are pitted against each other. I mean they are destroying their future and lives by going through this.

Anyways to go back to my first sentence about violence and survival, I believe that the purpose of Suzanna Collins writing this book was to open our eyes the ugly side war, the side of war. When I think of war, I tend to think of men having an assault rifle and infiltrating a base and some other kind, but the truth about war is that children my age or just a little bit older get in the middle. In many nations, young men three or four years older are given training and are sent out to basically be slaughtered. This connects to the book because even though the children are not going into war with another nation they are still being used by the government. Either way many of them are going to die.

The Hunger Games tells the story a distant future North America where children are made to fight to death. Much like war, children are put through hell and the cycle of violence, death, and survival continues to spread and infect the world like an epidemic.