My mentor text was Smoke and Mirrors by Elizabeth M. Rees. In it, she pretty much simply discussed reality vs unreality in the Hunger Games. Rees talks about how it must feel to live in a world that is based on deception and lies. In a world where you have virtually no freedom in nothing whatsoever. I wonder how far away we are from this society.
One of the things that make me think this is just because of how vulnerable we are in reality. I haven't gotten my hand on the book 1984, but I have read many book reviews and comments on it. It is generally about a society in which peoples thoughts are controlled and they legitimately have no say in anything. The government pretty much erases their past and they only have their memory to prove them wrong. In this, it kind of questions, how much could we believe if we only had our memories to tell us what is true and what isn't? It kind of just questions on how strong humans actually are to stand up to what they believe in despite the repercussions
I remember one of the first posts on this blog was about someone saying how horrible the people of District 12 were because they failed to stop from letting children violently murder one another. They accused them of being selfish, and it really got me thinking about things. I do wonder how the people that I communicate with on a daily basis would react to such a thing. I know people don't think it's possible, but when that is all that they could ever think of, and all that they ever knew, how could they stand up? Especially when by them standing up for what they believe in, it would end everything that they ever knew.
I know in the past in terms of things like the Holocaust, so many people were turning their backs away from the people, their neighbors that were being ripped out of their homes. No matter how much they screamed, no one listened to their screams for help. This just shows that it has happened in the past, and I don't feel as if anyone can specifically put themselves above something like that. I think desperation and survival instincts can cause people to do many things that they could never imagine.
It is hard to judge what you would do especially since we don't live in the world that they live in. It's much harder to actually live it, to be in that constant stage of fear, than to talk about it when in society today, we are given freedom. Or at least, we are made to believe we have freedom.
In the book 1984, the hing about it is that this time, it isn't other people on the line, it really was just them. The only people that were getting hurt in the book were them really. It wasn't like other people were on the line, it was really them. They were losing their identities in the process of what the government was doing to them, and they weren't fighting back. I think in both books, they were very realistic in how humans would react to both. It also shows that humans don't just let things happen because they aren't being affected, because even when they are, it doesn't stop anything.
As far as reading my mentor text, it was alright. I did enjoy getting another adults views and opinions from reading it, but it wasn't too interesting after a while.
One of the things that make me think this is just because of how vulnerable we are in reality. I haven't gotten my hand on the book 1984, but I have read many book reviews and comments on it. It is generally about a society in which peoples thoughts are controlled and they legitimately have no say in anything. The government pretty much erases their past and they only have their memory to prove them wrong. In this, it kind of questions, how much could we believe if we only had our memories to tell us what is true and what isn't? It kind of just questions on how strong humans actually are to stand up to what they believe in despite the repercussions
I remember one of the first posts on this blog was about someone saying how horrible the people of District 12 were because they failed to stop from letting children violently murder one another. They accused them of being selfish, and it really got me thinking about things. I do wonder how the people that I communicate with on a daily basis would react to such a thing. I know people don't think it's possible, but when that is all that they could ever think of, and all that they ever knew, how could they stand up? Especially when by them standing up for what they believe in, it would end everything that they ever knew.
I know in the past in terms of things like the Holocaust, so many people were turning their backs away from the people, their neighbors that were being ripped out of their homes. No matter how much they screamed, no one listened to their screams for help. This just shows that it has happened in the past, and I don't feel as if anyone can specifically put themselves above something like that. I think desperation and survival instincts can cause people to do many things that they could never imagine.
It is hard to judge what you would do especially since we don't live in the world that they live in. It's much harder to actually live it, to be in that constant stage of fear, than to talk about it when in society today, we are given freedom. Or at least, we are made to believe we have freedom.
In the book 1984, the hing about it is that this time, it isn't other people on the line, it really was just them. The only people that were getting hurt in the book were them really. It wasn't like other people were on the line, it was really them. They were losing their identities in the process of what the government was doing to them, and they weren't fighting back. I think in both books, they were very realistic in how humans would react to both. It also shows that humans don't just let things happen because they aren't being affected, because even when they are, it doesn't stop anything.
As far as reading my mentor text, it was alright. I did enjoy getting another adults views and opinions from reading it, but it wasn't too interesting after a while.
A lot of the things that go in the Hunger Games series are really wrong. I really like how your post reflects on that, and the connections you made to our world, and another story. I would like to hear more about what you think!
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