Hunger Games

Hunger Games: A Psychological Point of View

Tarvez Jackson

Chattahoochee Technical College: PSYC- 1101 (40831)

April 8, 2014

When it comes to how things are processed and interpreted, psychology plays a big part in how things are accepted and treated as the norm. What makes things interesting is how the same thing can be interpreted differently depending on who is processing the situation or receiving the information. Most times when there is a different outlook on something, it normally comes from people who are in two different social classes. The book Hunger Games describes how a high and low class society accepts an event, which is treated like a sport, of children fighting to death until one is left remaining. In this book there are many point of views discussed from the people who are in charge of the event, people who watch their kids fight and die, those who help the kids prepare, to the kids themselves. From a psychological point of view there are people from both societies who approve and disapprove of the event. This paper will give insight on how the people directly involved accepted their roles in the event and how the children mentally dealt with the reality of what they had been chosen to be a part of.

After reading this book, most people would think why would a society of people allow their own children to fight to the death? This event called The Hunger Games was held annually in which the 13 districts of Panam, a low class society, would offer a boy and girl as tribute to the higher class of people who lived in a city called The Capitol to participate in the event. These children ranged from the ages of 12-18, which in most cases is an obvious gap of physical and mental abilities. This also means each child would be eligible to be selected 7 times at random in that time period. Another factor for the children to consider is the fact that each district provided two kids, which means each child could possibly have to kill a friend or even...