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Conformity And Civil Disobedience In The Hunger Games

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To begin with, The Hunger Games is the first book in the Hunger Games Trilogy, which is written by Suzanne Collins. The novel takes place in Penem, a make-believe future where the Capital is surrounded by districts. The districts are like slaves to the Capital, constantly wasting away under horrible living and working conditions in order to give away their rewards of working so hard to the Capital. Because of this, the districts are extremely poor.
However, forcing Districts to give up their resources isn’t enough for the the Capital. It demands the Districts to surrender one boy and one girl to go into the annual Hunger Games, an annual fight to the death, in order to prevent all out war. Katniss, the main character in the book, ends up being part of the Hunger Games alongside Peeta. Katniss then has to fight for her life because only one victor is allowed by the Capital. Because of this situation in the book, conformity and civil disobedience play a huge role in the Hunger Games. Furthermore, people conform because they have a sense belonging. Others conform because they’re afraid, and when people do this they become similar to each other. A way this is shown in The Hunger Games is when the people show angst among the peacekeepers. In America people are scared of how others will react to their opinion on things. In the book, if people show disobedience to the peacekeepers then the peacekeepers will hurt them. In contrast, when people in America share an opinion that is

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