How Does The Hunger Games Present The Inequality Between The Rich And The Poor

In Panem, The capitol which is the richest dominate the districts which are very poor and the result is we can see the inequality between them. This is the view that we can see with our bare eyes that the capitol’s live is diffrent from the district’s live, this diffrence reveal in many ways throughout the novel. The rich control the poor so does in hunger games, the capitol control the districts by making a hunger games in the reaping day and help the one who win with some foods. The candidates of the reaping day must survive in the wilderness.
There are plenty of themes in the hunger games and one of them is inequality between poor and rich. Every reader of the novel will get it that the Hunger Games talks about the poor districts and the rich capitol when they are read at the beginning parts of the book. This will give the reader illustration about the diffrence between the district people and capitol people. It reveals that districts people are very poor particularly in food stock. In the novel Katniss says that “starvation’s not an uncommon fate in Districts 12”,
(Suzanne Collins, 2008, p.33) this means that the districts don’t have enough food supplies to support the population in the districts, and later on she has to hunt animals illegally from the forest beyond the districts border to feed her family. Life in the capitol is very diffrent from the district while most of the common foods are luxuries in the districts, most of the foods in the capitol are look expensive and classy. People in the capitol also use clothes that have very bright colours with strange hairstyle or even they dye their hairs like the representation from the capitol that come to district 12 named Effie Trinket, (Suzanne Collins, 2008, p.21). In the early of chapter 5, (p.74-80) they also treat the tributes that come to the capitol quite well like clean them, cut their nails, and so on. The Hunger Games display the goverment’s power over the citizen of Panem. They were constructed to warn the districts about how bad their situation become if they decide to rebel againts the capitol, the games are meant to crush the districts spirit.
Between the rich and poor, the poor usually dominated by the rich, it is the same thing what happens in the hunger games.
The districts people must obey the capitol’s rule and they made the games using people from the districts as a tributes. Later the tributes will fight each other on the wilderness and must survive. The Capitol people not just make them fight each other but also make them as a reality show to entertain the capitol citizen and they are also show it on districts as well and for them it is not entertaining but it is a horror for them, so the tribute families can only watch their child kill someone or sometime even get killed. They attach cameras everywhere in the wilderness to track them and know what are they doing, the dangerous the game the more excited are the audience. There is only one winner for the game and the winner will earn tesserae which could be exchange into some
foods.
Each of reader will have diffrent interest point of the story like the background of the hunger games, and I wonder what if the districs people were not rebel againts the capitol ? or what if they are all live together in harmony and support each other ?. The answer is might be they don’t have any games right now and will help each other. The hunger games made because the districts people which most of them are poor people and the luxurious capitol are againts each other and later on, when the capitol start to rise up it controls the districts and made the game to lower their spirit. In the reaping day when each tributes are entering the yards they must decide what should they do and think fast because when the game start everyone will run in chaos and snatch each items, if the tributes make any wrong movement they will die in vain. Like in the chapter 11 that Katniss decide what should she do (Suzanne Collins, 2008,p. 182) and she made the best decision by running. Other than think fast the another options are creativity and intelligently, because those two thing will help the tributes to help them survive in the wild, for example is Rue child from the district 11 she is quite clever for their age because in the early of chapter 14 she point her finger to tracker jacket’s nest to give Katniss signal and later on Katniss cut their nest down and the jackets disturb the people beneath their nest (Suzanne Collins, 2008,p. 224-231).
Most of people are discriminated for being either poor or rich/black or white and they seems not going well altogether and for each of the conflict there will be a riot if the conflicts prelonged just like in the novel.