Containment In The Hunger Games
In both texts, the populace is contained to specific quarters of civil life, and in doing so, illustrate the concern both authors have regarding control. Collins introduces the coal mining District 12 as separated from the woods by “a high chain-link fence topped with barbed-wire loops” (Pg. 4)
As protagonist Katniss Everdeen reflects on her childhood, she shares a time whereby she ‘scared (her) mother to death, (with) the things (she) would blurt out about District 12, about the people who rule our country, Panem, from the far-off city called the “Capitol”(Pg. 6). Whereas Collins fosters the idea of containment in restricting its civilians, Burger presents a future Chicago in which all its citizens are orchestrated into ‘factions,’ responsible
As protagonist Katniss Everdeen reflects on her childhood, she shares a time whereby she ‘scared (her) mother to death, (with) the things (she) would blurt out about District 12, about the people who rule our country, Panem, from the far-off city called the “Capitol”(Pg. 6). Whereas Collins fosters the idea of containment in restricting its civilians, Burger presents a future Chicago in which all its citizens are orchestrated into ‘factions,’ responsible