Argumentative Essay: The Hunger Games
The reaping is a gathering that takes place in all twelve districts to choose one boy and one girl to compete in the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is a competition between all twelve districts. In which, the boy and girl in the same district work together to eliminate the boys and girls from a different district. The twenty-Four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena and must fight to the death. Children are eligible to be chosen when they turn twelve years old. Their names are entered once when they turn twelve, and when they turn thirteen it is entered twice. So when you reach the age of eighteen, the final year of eligibility, your name goes into the pool seven times. According to Katniss Everdeen, “The reaping system is unfair, with the poor getting the worst of it.” The Capitol (Where the rich people live) take two kids from each district, and force them to kill one another while they all watch. This is the Capitol’s way of reminding all twelve districts how totally they are at their mercy. If any
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It's bad enough that the people in the districts are starving and fighting to stay alive. The people that live in the districts are treated like prisoners and the people that live in the Capitol are living a luxury life with no worries. The Capitol shouldn’t be building walls around people to keep them away from each other. The Capitol are just using the people for entertainment and to show who is in power and why they shouldn’t start a rebellion or they would kill them off like they did with district thirteen. They choose to punish them to keep power in the Capitol, there are other ways to keep power in a Capital. People in the district are forced to watch The Hunger Games and see their children from their district get killed by another child from a different district. It’s not right for the way the rich treat the poor in this story. They are all people and if anything help the poor and make
It's bad enough that the people in the districts are starving and fighting to stay alive. The people that live in the districts are treated like prisoners and the people that live in the Capitol are living a luxury life with no worries. The Capitol shouldn’t be building walls around people to keep them away from each other. The Capitol are just using the people for entertainment and to show who is in power and why they shouldn’t start a rebellion or they would kill them off like they did with district thirteen. They choose to punish them to keep power in the Capitol, there are other ways to keep power in a Capital. People in the district are forced to watch The Hunger Games and see their children from their district get killed by another child from a different district. It’s not right for the way the rich treat the poor in this story. They are all people and if anything help the poor and make