Hunger Games And The Holocaust: Comparison Of The Hunger Games And The Holocaust

Déjà vu- Comparison of The Hunger Games and The Holocaust She finds herself standing in an old unfamiliar empty room. She glances at the ceiling, noticing every ceiling title and each random square light in-between them. Then her eyes slowly focus on the pale white walls. As she scans each wall, she begins to notice the room is not empty. She soon realizes that she is standing in the middle of a hallway and staring at random unfamiliar people. Then everything becomes dark and she wakes up and goes on her day like normal. As she is going through her day, she finds herself in an unfamiliar room. She begins to study the ceiling, then the walls, and finally it dawns on her that she has been through this before. The girl has experienced déjà vu.

Life in the ghettos was usually unbearable and overcrowding was very common. In the ghettos, people were poor and conditions were unsanitary. Ironically, this was exactly how the districts lived. In The Hunger Games, Panem was divided into 12 individual districts separate from one another similarly to the ghettos which were built to separate the Jews from the rest of the population. In The Hunger Games, each of the 12 Districts does a different job that benefits and provides all of the luxury for the Capitol. As the people from the Districts work and starve in unsanitary conditions, the Capitol gets access to luxurious residences, mouth watering delicacies, and high tech medicine. The Districts are very like the concentration and labor camps that Hitler herded Jews and other "undesirables" into during the Holocaust. While Hitler filtrated the country from more and more Jews, some were sent to death camps. These camps were, unfortunately, the last destination for most Jews as it was marked for death with the self dug graves or with the gas chambers. The ones who were still alive were miserably forced to do work that benefited the Nazi Party in the labor camps and got the bare minimum conditions for survival. A lot of the Jews were forced to do labor work or be entertainment for the Nazis, while the Nazis lived in wealth. For an example, one Jewish boxer named Salamo Arouch fought to stay alive. He was forced to fight for the entertainment of the Nazis. Whoever lost the fight was sent to the gas chambers and put to death. Similarly, in the movie The Hunger Games, most of the tributes last destination was in the arena of The Hunger Games where two tributes from each district also fought to their deaths. As the tributes fought for their death, they were also entertaining the whole country of Panem, especially the Capitol. All the people who were not tributes