I read the series The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. The author shows us many issues that she thinks could happen in the future. The people in this book come across many issues in their day to day life, but this is the main one that they come across. In The Hunger Games, you can learn the lesson that a bad society results in bad living conditions.

An example of bad living conditions in the districts is that nobody gets everything they need to survive a day. They get limited resources and it is a struggle to get good food. They need meat, but they are not allowed to hunt. Gale and Katniss always snuck out of their district to get meat and sell it in to their local stores for money for their families. Gale, a main character, snuck out to hunt and he got caught while he was just trying to get food. His punishment was that he had to be whipped in front of his whole town. The peacemakers started many uprisings in that district which then spread to all 12 districts. Eventually District 12 gets set on fire while the two town heros are in the game, and a lot of people die because of President Snow.

A major way that this theme is shown in this book is how President Snow sends kids ages 12-18 to fight to their deaths. Only one kid may come out, and everyone must stay in the arena until they are dead. I do not understand why they would kill off a part of kid’s population each year just for the entertainment of the public. Some winners wish they died in there because they know that they will have such bad, haunting memories stuck in their heads for their whole life. Since Katniss and Peeta decided to not kill each other in the arena, there was no winner. Them and their families were tortured and they were threatened by the president. They caused so much violence because they did not want to kill each other. So many other people were killed because there was no winner, and the government sent the districts into chaos.

Another way that this theme is shown is how all of the kids in all of the districts know nothing but violence. All they see is bad living conditions and the sight of people being tortured. They don’t live with everything they need, which affects their health, which can affect what they are able to do physically. They grow up with the fear of being sent into the arena and being killed. If this book were to add more books to the series, which I’m pretty sure won’t happen, I bet that their districts would be in terrible conditions. Fighting in their country sends horror into their minds and sticks with them forever. Why do such bad people want to taunt their next generation with evil thoughts, pictures, scenes?

I know that this book is fake, but the author makes it seem so real. I will never understand why so much sin must be in this world because it makes some people so sick inside. Why would you not help the people in your country that have needs? Why would people hand pluck children and send them in an enclosed area to kill each other? All I want in life is for everyone to life in peace at one point, but this book shows us the future will be different. In The Hunger Games, you can learn the lesson that a bad society results in bad living conditions.