Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Civil Rights Connection to "Hunger Games"



We are doing this project because of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. We are supposed to be blogging about how the picture we picked relates to Hunger Games. I got my picture from Marching For Freedom by Elizabeth Partridge.
I think that this picture relates to the Hunger Games because in this picture the boys are being forced to work; forced to do something that they should not have to; forced to harvest food that they cannot eat. When I looked at this picture and thought of Hunger Games I thought of Rue and her district. Rue was from District 11. I know that more then just District 11 harvest different goods. The districts cannot use anything that they harvest. In this picture these boys are wearing prisoner suits; although in the districts they do not have prisoner suits and they are not chained but they might as well be. Each district has "Peacekeepers" (guards) and they have guns and whips. Around each district is an electrified fence and in some there are barbed wire on the top of the fences. The people in the districts are forced to do many things that they do not want to. They harvest for the Capitol, for the pleasure of the Capitol. The districts participate in the Hunger Games every year for the pleasure of the Capitol and so every year the districts can be reminded that if they uprise that nothing good will come out of it, and people will be killed again.

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