Theme Of Human Rights In The Hunger Games

The Violation of Human Rights

First of all, The Hunger Games is a title of a popular novel, which is written by Suzanne Collins. The novel shows a gab between the capitol and districts people, which involves a discrimination and vilation of human rights to the people at districts. In addition, capitol is a place where the rich people live and district is the contraty. The abuse of power by the government is led to the human rights violation. According to Amnesty International (2004, ¶1) “Human rights are basic rights and freedoms that all people are entitled to regardless of nationality, sex, national or ethnic origin, race, religion, language, or other status”. It is one of important themes in the novel because most of the story shows the

Nobody wants to be treated like an animal. Even a bird do not want to stay in the cage, although it is made from gold. Those expresion means, we cannot curb someone to stay in one place, even the place is really beautiful. Freedom is the most important things for human, where they can show their feeling or make an creation for lots of people around. In the novel, government make a rule for the people at districts, where they cannot go out from boundary, which is already assigned by the them (Collins, 2012). In fact, we cannot deny people need to go far away to do their business, for instance people who work overseas or they want to get another opportunity out there. According to the declaration of human right (1948, ¶21) “Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state”. In other words, people can go wherever they want as long they follow the rules. Anyone who breaks the rules in districts will get punishment such as death sentence, on the other hand, people at the Capitol can do whatever they want (Collins, 2012). In terms of human right, it shows a injustice treatment from the government, which is obviously abuse the human rights. Besides, the situation there is getting worse because the movement of the people is limited. If the government allows people in districts go out from their region and find out something new at the other districts, they might be can have a better life. For

Based on the novel, the government makes a television show to get money from people, where they broadcest a television show, which is about human killing each other (Collins, 2012). As we know, the consumers of it is not only adults but also children. They are a pure human, who will follow everything that they see. Another, the government even broadcests the game at districts. Can you imagine how is the feeling of the families, see one of the mamber from their family killed by someone. It is totally out of humanity value. Even a female lion, which is kill the others animal will not eat their children. It means nobaday wants to see part of their family die before the time. The thing that makes our heart hurt is people at the Capitol celebrate and enjoy seeing the televisi show, where some of them donate their money to make the game become more interesting (Collins, 2012). The thing that they should to do is never waste their money to support that kind of telivision show, and critisize the government to save the young