The Hunger Games
This article is about how The Hunger Games demonstrates ideas of media theory. The Hunger Games is about a post-apocalyptic America where thirteen districts exists purely to serve the capital city of the country, names 'The Capitol'. Every district is poor; people struggle to survive on small amounts of food and minimum wages, while they work to provide coal, technology, food, power and other services to the Capitol. Each year two children between the ages of 11 - 18 are sent from each district to partake in The Hunger Games, an annual, event that involves forcing each child to kill another until only one is remaining. The Games serve to keep the districts under control, as punishment for previous rebellions, and to warn them to stay in line.
The vital ideology to the way Panem is run; those in power control idas as well as resources. There is a dictatorship that is run under President Snow, a man who believes more in his own supreme leadership than the people of his country. He invests his creativity into the Games, he smells of blood and roses, and he purposefully aims to obliterate an hopes for rebellion. He believes that "hope is the only thing stronger than fear" and he deals with rebels by spreading fear through the districts. In the instant where Peeta is kidnapped, the Capitol Use civic and ideological power to maintain power and status.
They Live
In this article we see different theories and how these theories are interpreted by different people in society. The article talks about how not all ideologies are negative and how some of them could be true or positive. It then goes onto say that most ideologies have been created by the elite and upper class.
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