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Main points of: The Desensitization to Violence and the Perpetuation of Violence and Slavery in Suzanne's Colllin's The Hunger Games Trilogy

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The violence in the arena is similar to the violence in the Roman gladiator games and is somewhat related to present-day reality television.

The violence helps the Capitol to keep the districts controlled.

The social structure can have an effect on slavery.

The people in the districts are forced to work there for their entire lives.

Slavery can be defined as control over a slave based on violence, a threat of violence, no payment for services and the theft of their labor for economic gain.

Gladiator games were relatively rare.

That the hunger games are only done once a year may account for some of their popularity in the Capitol.

When a person in a district 'volunteers' for the games that person loses all legal rights to their own life.

The Capitol believes those in the games deserve to die for the uprising that happened over seventy years ago.

The citizens of the Capitol do not know that the people in the districts are kept in an oppressed condition.

The districts are meant to believe that their isolation from other districts is to protect them from something.

Like slavery in the south there is no firm parent-child relationship in the districts since a child can be taken from its family and forced to fight for its life and the family cannot stop that from happening. (Slaves in the South that had children would sometimes see their child/children sold to other slave owners and separated from their parents forever. They could also be whipped for anything just as Gale was whipped for having a contraband bird.)

The people in the districts live in a state of constant fear.

The poverty of the people in the districts leads some of the 12-18 year olds to increase their chances of being reaped by volunteering to add another paper in the drawing bowl for a year's worth (supposedly) of oil and grain.)

The poor in the districts are more likely to be reaped then those in the districts that are marginally better off.

The fake suffering in reality television inhibits our ability to understand real suffering.

An example of people being forced to stay in one place was the internment camps for Japanese Americans during World War II where people who had done nothing wrong were considered to be potentially dangerous because they had a Japanese ancestry so the government them into the camps without hearings or trials.

The number of actual slaves in the world today is around 30 million.