The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, Book 1) by Suzanne Collins

By Suzanne Collins

Within the ruins of a spot as soon as often called North the USA lies the kingdom of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded through twelve outlying districts. in the past the districts waged struggle at the Capitol and have been defeated. As a part of the give up phrases, every one district agreed to ship one boy and one woman to seem in an annual televised occasion known as, "The starvation Games," a struggle to the loss of life on dwell television. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives on my own together with her mom and more youthful sister, regards it as a loss of life sentence whilst she is pressured to symbolize her district within the video games. The terrain, ideas, and point of viewers participation may possibly switch yet something is continuous: kill or be killed.

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But what about those situations, now of such frequent occurrence, in which good means have end results which turn out to be bad? For example, we go to a tropical island and with the aid of DDT we stamp out malaria and, in two or three years, save hundreds of thousands of lives. This is obviously good. But the hundreds of thousands of human beings thus saved, and the millions whom they beget and bring to birth, cannot be adequately clothed, housed, educated or even fed out of the island’s available resources.

Recent developments in Russia and recent advances in science and technology have robbed Orwell’s book of some of its gruesome verisimilitude. A nuclear war will, of course, make nonsense of everybody’s predictions. But, assuming for the moment that the Great Powers can somehow refrain from destroying us, we can say that it now looks as though the odds were more in favor of something like Brave New World than of something like 1984. In the light of what we have recently learned about animal behavior in general, and human behavior in particular, it has become clear that control through the punishment of undesirable behavior is less effective, in the long run, than control through the reinforcement of desirable behavior by rewards, and that government through terror works on the whole less well than government through the non-violent manipulation of the environment and of the thoughts and feelings of individual men, women and children.

Brave New World was written before the rise of Hitler to supreme power in Germany and when the Russian tyrant had not yet got into his stride. In 1931 systematic terrorism was not the obsessive contemporary fact which it had become in 1948, and the future dictatorship of my imaginary world was a good deal less brutal than the future dictatorship so brilliantly portrayed by Orwell. In the context of 1948, 1984 seemed dreadfully convincing. But tyrants, after all, are mortal and circumstances change.

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