Over the course of just a handful of days, the Capitol has managed to torture Katniss in numerous ways. They have dehydrated her, they have burned her, they have stung her with tracker jackers, they have made her watch people die, and they have turned her into a piece in their Games. The Games they use to manipulate the Districts. They have made Katniss an object of their game and a form of entertainment for an audience that is happy to sit there and watch them die. The Capitol disgusts me, but how different is there world from ours?
They live in a world where the Capitol is the one place of luxury and where there is never a lack of resources. It would be unthinkable to die of hunger or thirst there, when it happens everyday in the districts. In our world, we live in one of the few countries among the wealthy and powerful, while in third world countries, people die of starvation everyday. There are differences though. In Panem, the manipulation and control over the world seems much more intense. They monitor and control everything, nothing happens when they don't want it to. At least in our country, people have a certain amount of freedom, and are able to speak out against the government without fear of being imprisoned– or worse. In Panem, if you spoke against the government, your family and those you love would be tortured and you would be imprisoned, mutilated, or killed.
In our world, though often we don't concern ourselves with those who are less fortunate in the world, at least we sometimes do, and actually make an effort to help. While the Capitol wants those who are less fortunate to remain so, just because it works out better for them. Sometimes the people in the Capitol might feel bad or sympathize with someone from one of the Districts, but they would never actually do anything to help, the would most likely be somewhat appalled and feel that they are truly better than such people. It is what they have been taught all their lives, and they can't be fully blamed for their actions. But there will always be the root of their actions, and I believe that such people do not deserve to live. But who knows? Maybe North America as we know it may one day become Panem.
Dear God I hope not. But I disagree with you on one part- America was a lot more like the Capitol than you acknowledge. Slavery is the one thing that in my opinion relates us to the capitol- the difference being that there were enough good people in America who were aware enough to try and stop it. But if you think about the videos we were shown in chorus about the Civil Rights movement, you see that those images looked alot like the scenes of Peacekeeper brutality in the books. And as sickening as that is, it really makes you think- did Suzanne Collin's make America the Capitol? Is that how we are (or were) viewed by other countries?
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