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How many people are going to be willing to rebel given that they would not only be risking their lives and that of their families, but that of the thousands of people in their district? And if District 1. So you'd be risking their lives on a gambit which is almost guaranteed to fail. Plus, they wouldn't need to wipe out the whole District. Basically anyone who might be even a little important to you. And bear in mind what happened last time: all 1.
Districts rose up at once, and lost. So what chance does a rebellion by one District have?
Or even all Districts, which are now reduced, and the Capitol is on alert for such a thing again? One of the more obvious examples would be District 1.
If the mines before the games are so sensitive that a token can set them off, why doesn't anyone simply ask for a necklace with objects on it as their token, detach the objects and chuck them at their neighbors mines? You could take out the whole career pack, and anyone else that's dangerous, that way and they wouldn't be able to do a thing. Then you have a shot at getting some weapons or having more people die early on. How did the people from District 7 not survive that long in Katniss' games? I mean, they're said to be really good with axes, and were in a forest which is there home environment. They should've aced that Games. If the Hunger Games has been going on for 7.
Gamemakers supposed to come up with original environments. There would be only so much games before old concepts had to be reused and then everyone who can remember . What happened with the token was an accident. I think you're not supposed to use such an strategy, and besides, I doubt they. But just familiarity with an environment isn. First of all, if the Careers thought the same as you, then the guys from District 7 were priority kills, hunted by basically trained soldiers.
You may throw all the Tributes in a forest that is similar to one from another Game, but change all the traps (and the people making the games seem to be very imaginative about this kind of thing). Even if some smart Tribute watched old Games and tried that strategy, yeah, he would have some minor advantage, but it. It was forbidden to step off the metal circles if IIRC, since I think the Gamemakers main concern was giving the people with quicker reactions the advantage when they arrived in the arena, and they wanted to have some good shots of the tributes standing ready to go. And, sure, you're not supposed to, but, it's pretty much a free- for- all in the arena and, to the tributes when they're in the game, nothing's off the table if it helps you to survive. Fair enough, I concede that point.
Except there aren't any traps, or at least there weren't any in the first Games (while the second was ridiculously complicated because it was a Quarter Quell, as was the one Haymitch was in), which implies that only the Quarter Quells are made special. Look at what Haymitch did.
He won the game by using the mechanics of the arena to his advantage. Sounds 1. 00% okay, right? But they killed his family and girlfriend, because it wasn't okay. The same thing would probably apply to attacking tributes during those 6.
You are not supposed to attack during this time. Pull this shit at the beginning, and you can bet that you won't make it out alive. Also, let's not forget the cannibal guy who died in an . He didn't break the rules per se, but the gamemakers didn't approve of his actions, so he had to go. There's also a chance that the general public would think you're unfair for attacking people during those 6. For example, the first arena had a forest part and a field part, divided by the lake.
The forest was generally regarded as safer. So, easy change, what if you make the open field safer? You can also change the temperature, so what if you make the night hot and the days cold, instead of the other way round? What if only nocturnal animals are safe to eat? Another important factor is the cornucopia. What sort of weapons are provided? What about food and other things?
Especially since the mentors are probably threatened for their silence. So it makes sense for an unknowing tribute to try and game the Hunger Games then have an Oh Crap!! About changing what people would expect, that would trip up pretty much all the tributes but after the initial surprise, some Capitol citizens (another important factor) would start to become disillusioned when they realize it's, to them, a cheap way to try an reuse an arena. And wouldn't the reusing of an environment have had to occur already if the games been going for 7. Also, the game is not supposed to start until the countdown is finished.
Finally, there's enough space between the mines that they only kill one person. One dead career probably improves your odds, but good luck surviving the night, when the gamemakers and the remaining careers are pissed at you.
Everybody can die during the initial bloodshed. Of course, eventually certain types of arenas will be repeated, but there are just so many additional factors that have to be considered.
Also, not everybody is a career who has probably studied all games in detail. You might vaguely remember that about a hundred years ago there was a similar arena, but that's not really a big help. No churches, mosques, temples - ruined or whole, prayers, .
Not even ruminations on what an afterlife might be like. No made- up religions even. Possibly such things existed and Katniss simply never paid any mind, but somehow that seems unlikely. It's a nice change of pace for a novel, it just seems incredibly strange. They've basically turned their celebrities into their idols. They've plugged the hole where religion might be with the hunger games' winners, the way people accuse the western world of plugging religion with celebrities. Marx refers to religion as 'opiate for the masses' - something to keep individuals docile and from revolting against the regime.
It falls in line with the 'bread and circuses', with entertainment taking the place of religion in their society. These are the sort of things that would likely destroy any religious buildings/symbols that might have been around previously. In previous wars, religious materials contrary to the regime have been destroyed and as Snow clearly thinks of himself as god, the existence of any being higher than himself would be contrary to his regime. It might also make it more difficult for people to buy into religion after those sort of events. While Katniss might ignore buildings and people going to Church, they would have come up with respect to birth, death, and marriage. There's no mention of religious custom with respect to marriages in Twelve, and there's no mention of funeral custom or any sort of last rites for the sick/dying (which definitely would have come up if they existed). I've read plenty that don't mention anything religious and even more that don't mention anything .
The complete lack of religion told me plenty about the society of Panem, none of it good. Completely getting rid of religion is impossible regardless of whether you believe in one or not.
If removed something has to replace it, even if unofficially. It also makes it a good deal easier rationalize anything, such as having children kill each other for entertainment live on national television. Also, your implication that atheists have no moral codes is nonsensical, to say the least. Secondly, of course atheists (can) have moral codes, but without a cosmic reward system (such as heaven and hell) there's no certainty of consequences for doing immoral things, therefore it is easier to rationalize.
Non- religion is not the danger, it is the forced removal of it. You'd think it would at least be mentioned in passing by someone like Katniss, who, like any religious persons (assuming atheism is the approved way of thinking), is one misstep away from being caught and suffering either death or something worse.
If anything, she seems agnostic by default of being uncaring. Protagonist =/= religious. Non- religious people do have morals and emotions like everyone else. If Panem is non- religious, the overall society is pretty awful, but there are people who recognize that, and those people are also non- religious. Hunger Games is a High Concept story that had almost limitless possibilities as to which direction it could have gone in, so at best the base idea can be seen as similar. Many of the elements that are similar in both works have a long history in western society, which as an educated person, Suzanne Collins would have known about. These include: the taking of children for sacrifice (Theseus and the Minotaur, Ancient Greece); fighting to the death for the entertainment of others (Gladiator fights, Ancient Rome); setting is dystopian in the future (George Orwell's 1.
Ancient Rome); and star crossed lovers (Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet c. Further more, before The Hunger Games came out in 2. Battle Royale was an obscure work to American audiences. With the exception of appearing in the Seattle Film Festival in 2.
Collins lived, it did not gain a wide release until 2. The book was relatively unknown during development of The Hunger Games in the USA, and it is unlikely that she would have known about it. Which is not obscure by any measure.
But yeah, the similarity is really just in base concept, it does legitimately do different stuff with it. Mellark was in love with Mrs. Everdeen and she apparently broke his heart when she chose Katniss' father. Mellark managed to have two children before Mrs. Everdeen had her first?