TOPIC 2- System of living
HUNGER GAMES
 Nation of panem is divided into 12 district
and the Capitol. 2 young representatives
from each district will be chosen by
randomly to join in the Hunger Games
each year. The Hunger Games is a part of
the Capitol’s entertainment, it is a
televised games that will air throughout
Panem. The 24 participants are forced to
fight against their competitors to achieve
their own victory in order to survive.
 Her trilogy incorporates typically dystopian
tropes such as government surveillance,
cruel punishments, social inequalities, and
of course a tyrannical leader. The nation of
Panem – from the Latin phrase panem et
circenses – is divided into twelve –
formerly thirteen – districts ruled with an
iron fist by President Snow. The Capitol’s
main purpose is to keep the districts
divided, oppressed, and thus to prevent
uprisings.
 Districts one and two, for instance, are
relatively privileged because they provide
the Capitol with luxury items and trained
Peacekeepers. In contrast, districts 11 and
12 “battle starvation” (Hunger 19) every
day because the Capitol keeps firm control
of the food supplies, enforcing artificial
scarcity to keep them subdued. The
ultimate aim of the Capitol’s total control
and this artificially created gap between
rich and poor is to reinforce its own
power.
DIVERGENT
 The story also begins with a futuristic
dystopia where society is divided into five
factions which divides the citizen through
the aptitude tests: abnegation (for the
selfless), amity (the peaceful), candor (the
honest), dauntless (the brave), and erudite
(the intelligent). Tris has a secret that she
is a Divergent, which mean that she have
the traits of more than one faction. She
has to keep it secret after knowing a secret
government program which wanted to
eradicate divergent completely.
 this society is often presented as having
ideal potential, rather unlike Panem.
Besides being relatively undemocratic, this
urban society is divided according to five
factions, which limits people considerably.
This system hampers identity formation
and the development of individuality, and
demands complete loyalty to the faction
over the ‘natural’ bonds of family.
Although this future Chicago, too, is
relatively oppressive, most inhabitants
approve of the system, and even Tris
cannot completely abandon her notions
concerning factions and faction identity
 Society is sharply divided into five factions,
Blokker 23 the names of which –
Abnegation, Amity, Candor, Dauntless and
Erudite – immediately tell us that each
faction was based on the aspiration to
attain a particular virtue – selflessness,
kindness, honesty, courage, intelligence –
and on rejection of the corresponding vice.
Teenagers are allowed to choose their
future faction, but this decision is
irreversible. Thus there is free choice, but
there are only five choices, and movement
between factions is limited
 Nonconformity, whether as a result of
 being Divergent or of being banished from
one’s faction, results in factionlessness – a
life without community – or even death.

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