Hunger Games Final overview of the Whole Book

In the last part of the Hunger Games, I finally realized the extent of brutality of the government. Suzanne Collin's purpose in writing this book is loud and clear.

During this part, Peeta and Katniss's relationship develops. To Katniss, this romance is a show for the audience to gain sponsors and having a higher chance of survival. Peeta's view is the opposite. I found it ironic how the audience enjoy watching the violence between the tributes and also is crazy over Peeta and Katniss's love relationship. Further on, the emotions of friendship may be the strongest to arouse action. The government can control the people in any way possible, but they may never control the people's emotions.

After finishing the book, I felt like the games' ultimate purpose is to try to eliminate any feelings of friendship or love out of them, so they will simply be no different from animals, and animals are easy to control. Friendships can show the brutality of the government. When the gov. reshow the caps of the games, they never showed Katniss embroidering Rue's dead body with flowers and singing her to death because it allows the audience to view Rue as humans and her sad death would be the fault of the government. This leads to my next point.

Owing people favors is a big and repeated action in this book, even from the beginning of the book. Katniss hates owing people. When she was a kid, Peeta gave her a loft of bread and suffered a beating for her. From then on, she felt like she needs to pay back for this act of kindness, but she never did. Peeta had started this cycle. Now, Peeta also owe's Katniss because she saved his life by risking her own to fight for his medicine. Peeta mentions, he intends to pay all the favors back. Another time was when Thresh caught Katniss- he could have easily killed her, but he let her go because she had done the best to her abilities before Rue's death. Rue and Thresh is from the same district. Also, Thresh's district- District 11, sent Katniss bread in thanks. He let her go because he didn't want to owe her anything. Katniss understands:

"I nod because I do understand. About owing. About hating it. I understand that if Thresh wins, he'll have to go back and face a district that has already broken all the rules to thank me, and he is breaking the rules to thank me, too. And I understand that, for the moment, Thresh is not going to smash my skull." (288)

Owing people is very important in the games. They feel guilty and ashamed when they do because there is not anything you can do in arena to make it up if you're going to kill them later. They cannot bond to make a friendship because of the government. Even thanking people from another district have become restricted. The government have successfully turned them against each other- keeping emotions out is the best way to fit the government's terms as a killer.

When the government makes it seem like the enemy is each other, but the real enemy is the government. For example, Cato is the perfect entertainer for the game. He's the type of person who actually wants to kill in a brutal inhumane way for his own entertainment. He fits the government's requirement and takes the role as enemy perfectly.