The Hunger Games: Dystopian Societies

Books help in teaching about dystopian societies and how to prevent it from happening to our world. The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, is a dystopian themed novel that shows all aspects of a dystopian society and the struggles to survive. “Our part of District 12, nicknamed the Seam, is usually crawling with coal miners heading out to the morning shift at this hour. Men and women with hunched shoulders, swollen knuckles, many who have long since stopped trying to scrub the coal dust out of their broken nails, the lines of their sunken faces.” (Collins 4). “When I was younger, I scared my mother to death, the things I would blurt out about District 12, about the people who rule our country, Panem, from the far-off city called the Capitol. Eventually I understood this would only lead us to more trouble. So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.”(Collins 6).
“For the next two years, he remained in hiding, in an empty storeroom. It was in a building where Walter had worked in previous years. There was very little food. There was plenty of suspicion.” ( Zusak 194) Life for a Jew, during the Holocaust was fairly hard because almost everyone around you wants you to be dead. “‘I have to keep going, though, at least a few times a week. I can’t be here all the time. We need the money, and if I quit playing there, they'll get suspicious. They might wonder why I’ve stopped . I told them you were sick last week, but now we have to do everything like we always have.” (Zusak 211). It was also hard for people who did not agree with the Nazi to survive. Because Hans was not in the Nazi Party, he could not get a job since no one would take him. Thus, fictional books can help in teaching about dystopia, and how to stop