The Hunger Games Movie Vs Book

In the film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ book, The Hunger Games, the viewer in placed into a dystopian world with main characters, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark. Their story is set in the country of Panem, leading up the the 74th annual Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is an event in which one male and one female “tribute” are chosen from each of the twelve districts and put into an arena where they will fight to the death until the last fighter can be crowned victor. Katniss and Peeta both come from district twelve, which is the poorest of the districts as their population is made up of coal miners. The capital is where the most wealthy live as well as the tyrannical President Snow. Technology is used by the government to control the
Panem is filled with advanced technology that the Capitol uses to make their lives easier, unlike those in the outer districts. While the Capitol has access to force fields, hovercraft, artificial arenas, and weapons, they don’t use that access to technology to help the outer districts. Since the Capitol is run by one man, President Snow, the entire country of Panem is run to the liking of President Snow. He is a tyrant who shuts down all forms of resistance and has basically trained the population to not fight back against him even though the different districts are treated so vastly different. The other districts can’t fight back because they have primitive weapons, like Katniss’ bow and arrow. They are restricted access to tools that help them survive and it should make them rebel but it doesn’t. That is how the government is so powerful, they have crushed any chance of the citizens rebelling and they give them the Hunger Games for hope. Hope is what keeps the citizens from not rebelling. The gross abuse of power that the government has through the control of technology keeps the citizens fearing the
The technology that the game makers have access to when they create the hunger games is some of the most advanced technology in all of panem. Seneca Crane, the game maker for the 74th Hunger Games, made a fake biome that includes rivers, forests, animals, plants, and even artificial natural disasters. They can manipulate any variable at the touch of a touch screen button. Katniss got to witness this several times as she was targeted by forest fires, fireballs being launched at her, and other animals being created from thin air to kill her. At the end of the movie, the game makers accelerate the rate in which the tributes die by releasing genetically modified death hounds that can kill anyone in a second. The only way that Katniss and Peeta could outsmart them was to climb to the top of the cornucopia. Without all of this artificial prodding by the game makers, the games would have taken much longer and would have been more fair, but less fun to watch for the people in the