Examples Of Functionalism In The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins, the author of The Hunger Games, imagines a world where people are divided by district just like the real world does with the high, middle, low classes. This book is full of themes, literary devices and also talks about how the government — in this case the Capitol — oppresses their citizens.

The Hunger Games, the movie, was adapted from the popular young adult novel by Suzanne Collins. The Hunger Games is sometimes described as another cliche love story for which the young adult genre is infamous. Despite appearances, The Hunger Games illustrates a complex and creative dystopian world with a much deeper underlying message, including topics such as, politics, history, and celebrity worship. The setting appears to be a futuristic version of America. This future America is very classist, and the tyrannical government is sure to keep the classes divided by heavily oppressing the working class. The working class is divided into twelve districts, which used to be thirteen districts until the thirteenth district was annihilated as a result of its uprising. In response to the thirteenth district’s resistance, the President created a game called “The Hunger Games” in an effort to instill obedience in the remaining twelve districts. Through the course of the movie, we learn that “The Hunger Games” are not only a mechanism to force obedience on the working class, but also to serve as entertainment for the elite society who live in the Capitol. The Games require 24 randomly selected children from the working class districts to fight to the death in an elaborately staged battle, all of which is filmed and broadcasted to the entire nation, working class and elite alike. Thesis: The Hunger Games, the movie, has a hauntingly feasible storyline and clear references to real

The Hunger Games universe is set in the country named Panem, and is built on a dictatorship. The country consists of a wealthy capitol and 12 districts which are in varying states of poverty. Every year, two children from each district are selected to participate in a televised death match called The Hunger Games. There are 24 tributes in the beginning, but in the end only one will be victorious.

The themes that found in the novel The Hunger Game such as survival, violation, power, inequality, poverty, devotion and so forth are presented to demonstrate a critical time in the history throughout clarifying the cultural significance in an unspecified future time. The novel’s main point is the struggle to adapt to normal daily life and how individuals are finding it difficult to adjust within their environments at this time.The adventure novel follows sixteen years old Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Malirak who lived in the twelve poor districts that ruled by the rich Capitol, which located in the Rocky Mounted. Noticeably, the perspective of Collins anticipated that readers have to draw attention to the domination and bias as significant issues

Reality television has differed throughout the years. At one point it was meant to be a literal depiction of everyday life. Now, reality television has changed to be more dramatic and outrageous than an average person or family’s life. The Hunger Games, in a way, depicts the lives of those who live in the poorer districts where the necessities for life are not in such abundance as in the Capitol. Although children are not forced to kill each other in the districts, there is still the struggle for one’s livelihood. That reality is depicted in the games and it seems that The Capitol takes that theme and develops it into The Hunger Games that we know and love. The Hunger Games suggests that reality television is manipulated to the point where the viewers see what the creators (game makers) want them to see.

In a not-too-distant, some 74 years, into the future the United States of America has collapsed, weakened by drought, fire, famine, and war, to be replaced by Panem, a country divided into the Capitol and 13 districts. Each year, two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to participate in The Hunger Games; these children are referred to as tributes (Collins, 2008). The Games are meant to be viewed as entertainment, but every citizen knows their purpose, as brutal intimidation of the subjugated districts. The televised games are broadcasted throughout Panem as the 24 participants are forced to eradicate their competitors, literally, with all citizens required to watch. The main character

Imagine a world where poverty, violence, and genetic engineering becomes more than world issues but the center of entertainment. In the novel, The Hunger Games, written by Suzanne Collins argues that North America will be demolished. Collins detects that our society is becoming a dystopian world. As the writer Suzanne puts it "history of Panem, the country that rose up out of the ashes of a place that [once was] called North America… the disasters, the droughts, the storms, the fires, the encroaching seas that swallowed up so much of the land, [and] the brutal war" (Collins 18). Now, that North America has vanished The Capitol will control the new North America called Panem.

The hunger games is set in what was once North America, it is called Panem and the Capitol of Panem relies on their 12 districts by forcing them to choose a boy and a girl and making them compete in a televised event called the

John Boorstin claimed that realizing the difference between real and authentic was an important one and that authenticity was infinitely more important. When comparing the two films The Hunger Games and Don Juan Demarco, it is apparent that The Hunger Games is the more authentic of the two and here is why. Cultures that are raised from revolution grow to value it more than others; while at the same time fear its reoccurrence. Often such countries will do things to remember this revolution, and in the case of the film The Hunger Games, the games are exactly that. Each year the Capital seeks to strike fear in the districts, show their power, and to make sure the working class remembered the mistakes they had made in years prior.

The country of Panem is divided in to thirteen districts and a Capitol. Traveling between the districts is forbidden, making communication and knowledge about other districts limited. Government’s totalitarian rule over the country tightened after the rebellion of the districts, thus demonstrating the absolute power that the government have over the people of Panem. The Capitol passed a new law forcing the districts to participate in “The Hunger Games”. A yearly blood sport, where two tributes— a male and a female— are forced to fight to the death. To further torment and demonstrate their absolute power over the people of the districts, the government forces the districts to treat the Games as a national holiday. The story’ protagonist, Katniss is a girl from district twelve. District twelve is arguably the poorest district of the nation of Panem. Her father died in a mine explosion when the protagonist was eleven years of age. Being the eldest of two children, she was forced to replace the bread winner. She learned how to hunt for food in the forest —which is forbidden— at an early age to feed her sister Prim and her mother. Her sister is then chosen to participate in The Hunger Games, which Katniss volunteers to replace her place as tribute.

1) The Hunger Games is set in a dystopian North America called Panem. As a Result of a rebellion by the 13 districts, who tried to overthrow the capitol, the Hunger Games were created as a way to punish the districts, and to remind them never to do it again. More importantly, the Hunger Games is a form of social control, used by the capitol to keep the districts in compliance and in order. Although The Hunger Games depicts a fictional country, social control that is depicted in the movie is also applicable to my own life.

The Essay attached explores some themes through the hunger games, including dystopian societies, effect of the media on society and the Entertainment of other human suffering. The hunger was written by Suzanne Collins in 2008 and is a dystopian themed novel.

The Hunger Games presents a very frightening and clear warning to the readers about the government being in too much control over the poverty around the world with the creation of a system of destruction, the drafting of two people of each gender in each district, and the exploitation of the tributes chosen to be included in the “ games “. Though the creation of the hunger games did eliminate a huge part of the nation’s past of disputes, it only created segregation between the high-class population and the low-class population. The creation of the hunger games also created a system of authorities superior to others and a tradition to maintain peace to protect the superior authorities When the hunger games was created, it created a system of destruction and

43) However, in functionalism, the materials a student is taught in a social institution directly affects how the society will operate. With functionalism, functionalists argue that the purpose of social institutions is to effectively operate in a modern society. Conflict theorist argue that the main purpose is to establish a divide between the dominant class and the subordinate class.

“The Hunger Games takes place after the destruction of North America, in a nation known as Panem, which consists of a wealthy Capitol and twelve surrounding, poorer districts. District 12, where the book begins, is located in the coal-rich region that was formerly Appalachia. As punishment for a previous rebellion against the Capitol in which a 13th district was destroyed, one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 from each district are selected by annual lottery to participate in the Hunger Games, a televised event in which the participants (or "tributes") must fight to the death in a dangerous outdoor arena controlled by the Capitol until only one remains. The story follows