Reading Response (2- HW #6)

So I recently re-read Catching Fire (Hunger Games #2) by Suzanne Collins...

11. Who has "power" in this text? How does that power get shown?

     I think we can all answer that question. The government has excessive power. The government is in the Capitol. The people in the Capitol are so snobby and ignorant that they don't care that the people in the other 12 districts are swimming in poverty and on the brink of starvation. The government also makes the districts randomly choose a male and a female from their people, and the government makes them all fight to the death. The government does this to remind the districts of how weak they are. During the games, the government controls anything and everything that happens in the arena. They can make people explode, make forest fires, send attack dogs, anything.
    Another thing that shows the governments power is that when someone becomes a traitor (tries to rebel), they cut their tongue out and make them into a servant. They want to control everyone, and someone doing something wrong is the perfect excuse for them to experiment the limits of their control.