District 12 = industriAL REVOLUTION
People who are neglected or treated unfairly are most often seen in lower classes. District 12 is known to be the most poverty-stricken district in Panem. District 12 resemble the life conditions that was put upon poor people in the Industrial Revolution. Due to over crowdedness poor people in Great Britain barely had enough food and most were unsanitary. In the book the Capitol throw aways food easily and does not even bother to care if District 12 has food or not. Due to hunger people strived for equal rights causing them to enter the rebellion in hopes of change. People in District 12 wanted better living conditions, they wanted to have their lives equally the same as the people living in the Capitol. While the working class people in the Industrial Revolution fought for their civil rights to have better living conditions.
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An article by Max Despain discusses how Collins use food to metaphor “cultural, social, political, and personal longing” to produce a rebellion in a dystopian future using hunger (Despain 69).
A look inside Panem: http://www.myhungergames.com/hunger-games-a-look-at-panem
“here in the Capitol they’re vomiting for the pleasure of filling their bellies again and again …
not from … [or] spoiled food” (CF pg.80)
A look inside Panem: http://www.myhungergames.com/hunger-games-a-look-at-panem
“here in the Capitol they’re vomiting for the pleasure of filling their bellies again and again …
not from … [or] spoiled food” (CF pg.80)