Examples Of Dehumanization In The Hunger Games

In the Hunger Games, Author Suzanne Collins presents the idea that people become desensitized to violence because of distractions and control. This is a universal idea because it is presented from the book to the real world. One of the big references to desensitization in the book are the people in the capital. In the book, they are constantly cheering and shouting for a glimpse of one of the tributes that are going to kill each other in less than a week. One of the quotes from the book is “ The people begin to point at us eagerly as they recognize a tribute train rolling into the city”(Collins 59). They know that the people in the train are going to fight to the death for their pure entertainment. And they don’t even realize or even give a thought to how the

They don’t give that thought because of how desensitized they are because of how advertised and produced the event is. My second point about desensitization is the game makers themselves. They are the ones who rate the tributes for survival skills and intellect from 1 -12. And they are the ones who control the arena the hunger games is placed in. They have been desensitized to violence so they treat the tributes as game characters and control the arena against their odds as a game. And don’t even realize they are dehumanizing them and treating them as toys. And in the book, they state “The world has transformed to flame and smoke.” (Collins 172). This quote references when Katniss was shot by huge fireballs in the arena that the game makers created. They are toying with the tributes. Especially with actually shooting something as broad as a fireball. They don’t even realize how dangerous it is and how neutralized they are to the whole action itself. And finally, the biggest use of distractions and control itself in hunger games is Caesar Flickerman. He is the biggest source of desensitization for the whole capital. He produces the hunger games as a live video