Essay On The Lottery And The Hunger Games
Hope; something that people believe in. Throughout the short story by Shirley Jackson "The Lottery" and in the movie "The Hunger Games" these people have one thing; hope. They live with a government that controls everything; dictatorship. In the short story "The Lottery" is about two higher class people are the leaders of the village and need to limit the population by killing off their villagers. The Lottery, Jackson shows how positions of power are important to the characters that possess them and have consequences for their actions. Throughout the story they show hope that the killing of their own will bring good harvest to them and bless them with food and no one goes without. As well as "The Hunger Games." They are control by the minority;
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He believes that hope is fine as long as it is contained and that fear does not work when there is a lot of hope. Snow keeps his rules very strict and to the point. Snow fears that the idea of a lot of hope and the collective are presented as the baby steps to rebellious uproars and freedom. That the districts will be free of oppression and fear. So, Snow controls the amount of food. He controls these people by allowing them to get the food they need to live, but their names go into the "The lottery" to be chosen to fight in the Hunger Games to get a chance at the end of their "Hunger." Each day, the population is presented with a series of lies, for example: the lie of what really happened to District 13. The Capitol ignores the peoples sufferings of hunger but view the games as entertainment. And the families have to watch with no protest; good or bad. These two stories show the abuses of authoritarian governments which infiltrate people's privacies and bombards them with propagandist images as a mean to brainwash them and tighten their power. Freedom of expression has disappeared, such as creativity, arts and literature: they are too dangerous. Both stories reveal hope for the people in sufferance of their government. Both are control in various way but these people hope for the
He believes that hope is fine as long as it is contained and that fear does not work when there is a lot of hope. Snow keeps his rules very strict and to the point. Snow fears that the idea of a lot of hope and the collective are presented as the baby steps to rebellious uproars and freedom. That the districts will be free of oppression and fear. So, Snow controls the amount of food. He controls these people by allowing them to get the food they need to live, but their names go into the "The lottery" to be chosen to fight in the Hunger Games to get a chance at the end of their "Hunger." Each day, the population is presented with a series of lies, for example: the lie of what really happened to District 13. The Capitol ignores the peoples sufferings of hunger but view the games as entertainment. And the families have to watch with no protest; good or bad. These two stories show the abuses of authoritarian governments which infiltrate people's privacies and bombards them with propagandist images as a mean to brainwash them and tighten their power. Freedom of expression has disappeared, such as creativity, arts and literature: they are too dangerous. Both stories reveal hope for the people in sufferance of their government. Both are control in various way but these people hope for the