A totalitarian government consists of a dictator, and is centralized. The Hunger games has a similar government, where the people have few rights, and the majority of the more powerful people are in the capitol, or center. The people in the districts have to work very hard for very little while the citizens in the capitol don’t work as much, and get a lot more.
The government in the Hunger Games doesn’t give its people many rights as stated by the fact that in some of the districts, the people can’t keep everything they harvest. The games are meant to stop the people in the districts not to rebel, as they had long ago. The majority of the power is held in the capitol, where the government resides.
The Hunger Games is a book about Katniss, a 16 year old girl who lives in a poor family. She has to support her sister and her mother ever since her father got killed by a mine. She earns money and food by illegally traveling out of her “district” where she hunts animals and collects plants with a friend named Gale. Eventually, the reaping comes along. The reaping is where each district randomly picks out 2 random people within the age of 12-18. One boy, one girl. Katniss and Peeta, a baker's son, get chosen to compete. They go to the capitol where they start to prepare for the games. They train, and get dressed up by stylists. When everyones ready, the Hunger Games begin. 24 contestants are put in a circle pod and have 60 seconds. There are supplies around the entire arena, and more are located near the center. Katniss decides at the last second to flee instead of going to the middle. She runs off into the forest where she starts to camp down. When a person dies, a hovercraft picks them up, and returns the body to their family. At night, a screen portrays who died over the day. On the first night, 11 died. Eventually, she gets found by a group of tributes, who camp under her tree, and wait for her to leave. She spots another tribute in the tree beside her and they become allies. Rue, the ally, tells her that a powerful breed of bees were living right above her, on the highest branch. Katniss waits till the national anthem plays, and then she drops the bees, resulting in a death. She runs away with Rue. They spot some enemy supplies and decide to blow them up. In the process, Katniss goes deaf in one ear, and Rue is caught in a snare, ending in her death. After this, an announcement reports of a new rule wher
