Saturday, January 14, 2012
Mockingjay :O6"Anyway, it's not like an actual Games. Any number of people will survive. We're just overreacting because – well, you know why. You still want to go, don't you?"
"Of course. I want to destroy Snow as much as you do," he says.
"It won't be like the others," I say firmly, trying to convince myself as well. Then the real beauty of the situation dawns on me. "This time Snow will be a player, too."(253 .Collins).
The Games were what brought them all together in the first place so it does seem reasonable to do it all over again. It was because of the Games that Katniss really saw how corrupted her world is. The government, the Capitol, the Districts, and the people have all been living in a big fat lie. Not only did they follow what the government said, they believed in every single word. They never did stop for a second and think if it was logically or right.
This time, Katniss and her crew are making sure that President Snow is a piece in their game. Ever since the Games existed, everyone that was put into them was pieces in Snow’s game. It’s only fair that now he plays in their’s. Snow never did participate in this own Games physically. He was behind the Gamemakers, strategizing each and every move. This time, it’d be him in the Games but it’s a bit different. Unlike Katniss and Finnick, he doesn’t really know what to expect. Sure, he was behind the Games, but it doesn’t make him feel what the players are feeling. It’d be fun to see him try to navigate his way through his own game.
People say to never play fire with fire but I guess that sometimes that playing fire with fire is the only way to burn something out. By making Snow a piece in the game, Katniss is challenging Snow to play his own game. Snow always believed that no one could beat him at his own game but Katniss knows that she can beat him at this own game. Snow clearly represents the government; whereas Katniss is the bomb ready to explode.
It takes a special kind of courage to enter into a version of the Games for a third time. Most folks are too terrified to even make it through one. Katniss and Finnick have already had to endure two, and it's a miracle they both made it through those alive. Here, it's hard to know whether Katniss is really "convinced" by her rhetoric or not. More people might survive, but more people will probably die, too.
Labels: DJ6, GOVERNMENT, MOCKINGJ, P2
WHTC @4:02 PM!
Thursday, December 15, 2011
The Hunger Games :O6 So I still have a chance, though. Funny, in the arena, when I poured out those berries, I was only thinking of outsmarting the Gamemakers, not how my actions would reflect on the Capitol. But the Hunger Games are their weapon and you are not supposed to be able to defeat it. So now the Capitol will act as if they've been in control the whole time. As if they orchestrated the whole event, right down to the double suicide. But that will only work if I play along with them. (358, Collins)
The Hunger Games are all about the power of the Capitol, so they've got to appear to be in control. Katniss and Peeta’s double suicide stunt was the one that undermined the government’s authority. In this scene, the government was not the ones in charge (finally). Instead, it was Katniss and Peeta who were in control. Every day and every second of the games, they both were going along with what the government wanted them to do, at least up to the final moments of the game. No one forced them or told them to eat the berries, they chose to. Katniss and Peeta were controlling themselves and their own fates. I guess you can say that they are taking a leap at faith.
Not only did Katniss outraged the Gamemakers, she stripped them of their control, their needs to be on top. They look at what she has done as a form of mockery and that she is challenging them. I’m pretty sure that that was not Katniss was intentions. Like she said, no one was supposed to be able to defeat/win the games, but she did. Not only did she actually win, she won in a more metaphorically way. She beat the Gamermakers at their own game. She showed them that conformity did not get the best of her and that she will do what she has to survive. Survival is the key in the book to overrule the government. The people of Panem saw what happen to the people in District 13 because, like I said before, District 13 is a warning of what could happen to them.
The government’s authority was taken away from them as soon as those berries were taken out. It proves that the smallest action can be a loophole in fighting what these people believe is right. No one ever questioned the government because what the government has told them was the only thing that they acknowledged. They didn’t know any better and even if they did, they didn’t want to put their lives at stake, yet they were also secretly looking for change. Katniss understood the fact that there can be no changes if no one did anything. She chose to set herself free and she chose to rid Panem of its dystopian characteristics. She chose to free Panem.
Labels: DJ6, GOVERNMENT, P2, TGH
WHTC @9:29 PM!
