final post

     This book is a dystopian, an imaginary place where everything is bad as it can be, novel because it takess place when a society with an overpowering government controls the lives and resources of twelve different districts. Katniss is a sixteen-year-girl that lives in District 12. She is  the main character of the story. Each year, as punishment for the rebellion District 13 made agains the capital, two children from each district are chosen by lottery to fight each other to the death in an arena. The event is called the Hunger Games and is televised for everyone to see in the Capitol. Who wins is given food and a life of ease for themselves and their families, with rewards as food and resources for their district. Katniss  volunteers after her little sister,Prim,  is chosen to participate in the hunger games. Peeta, a baker's son, is also chosen to fight in the Games. Katniss and Peeta are whisked away to the Capitol to fight other children in the artificial landscape created for the arena. Until only one is alive.
  
     An allegory,a story that symbolize something else, can be found after the death of Katniss ally,Rue. Katniss covers the body of Ruel with flowers to symbolize Rue's humanity and a tribute to her short life. By calling attention to the sacrifice that Rue made during the Hunger Games, Katniss challenge the idea that Hunger Games and the people who play them are more than just an entertainment for the people at the Capitol. For Katniss Rue wasn't just a character on a television show. She was and she is a human being who is worthy of respect, and admiration.As Katniss said,"I want to do something, right here, right now, to shame them, to make them accountable, to show the Capitol that whatever they do or force us to do that there is a part of every tribute they can't own. That Rue was more than a piece in their Games. And so am I." (Collins 237) By covering Rue with flowers she is rebelling against the Capitol.After the dead of Rue Katniss decided to go on and win the games.So she can prove to the Capitol that they can't take their humanity from them.
      


      There some  allusions, a reference to a well know person, place or thing,or another work of literature, in The Hunger Games  that Suzanne Collins mention on her interview. She said that she was inspire in the  ancient Roman Empire. Suzanne said that Panem is supposed to be like ancient Rome. Panem comes from the Latin expression 'Panem et Circenses' which translates into "Bread and Circuses." This  refers to the techniques the roman empire used to keep the audience happy. The Hunger Games and the Arena are another allusion.They are similar to the Colosseum in Rome. There gladiators would fight to the death for the entertainment of the citizens.

     I saw  this example of satire,the use of irony,sarcasm,ridicule to expose something else in a work of literature, in the novel is that the capitol use the games to show everybody that they can do anything they want and that the people  can't do nothing about. They can take any children to the arena and kill him for the fun of it. They control everything and anything that goes in and out of the districts. They can chose who dies and who live to work for them. But there is a district that will reveal against the capitol. District 13, knows that there is one thing that the Capitol can't take away neither control, their humanity.