Deception
Deception is
Manipulating others
Hiding the truth
Distorting media
Class inequality is
Unfairness to certain groups of people
“It’s all a big show. It’s all how you’re perceived.”
Deception
Haymitch
The Capitol is deceptive when:
Shows victors as happy
Depicts bloodshed for entertainment
District 12 shows class inequality because
It is the poorest district and receives barely any food
“The Capitol has their own way of turning children into killers.”
Deception
Katniss
“District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.”
Class inequality
Katniss
“It’s all a big show. It’s all how you’re perceived.”
Deception
Haymitch
The Hunger Games explores deception as:
a way to control, manipulate and convince people that everything is all right in a world that is unfair and people are unequal
The Hunger Games explores class inequality:
But instead I’m here. And I hate them. Because of how they twist the Games. How everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena.”
Deception
Class Inequality
Katniss