Write 8 pages with APA style on The Impact and Treatment of Security Threats by the State in The Hunger Games. Throughout the content, the main character, Katniss Everdeen, wins this competition twice and leads the political regime of President Snow to change.

Write 8 pages with APA style on The Impact and Treatment of Security Threats by the State in The Hunger Games. Throughout the content, the main character, Katniss Everdeen, wins this competition twice and leads the political regime of President Snow to change.

To start with, the story rises on the issue of human security as the main topic of all its chapters. In the context of the Games themselves, Clemente (2012) noticed that the lottery-like ceremony based on “tessera” (or material goods) is created in order to disadvantage desperate people from the poorest industrial parts of the country (p. 25). In other words, Hunger Games challenge human security, because they arise as “a distraction from the real game of economic inequality” (Muller, 2012, p. 52). Moreover, the sharp contrast between the Capitol’s leisure style and poverty of the majority of the country (Muller, 2012, p. 53) underlines the impression of human insecurity existence. In this context, this link can be also presented as a greedy Capitol’s consumption from the oppressed producers of material goods (Burke, 2014, p. 4). In other words, the issue of human security in the novel is above all a complex problem of natural life within the districts in the circumstances of political dictatorship and the industrialized economy created in the Capitol. However, the appearance of mutated animals and soldier society of District 13 also illustrates the above-mentioned conflict, since all these instances demonstrate limitations on human life in terms of food security and human rights protection.

Above all, the food motif is crucial in the context of human security. In fact, the most appreciated prize in Hunger Games is the guarantee of the basic needs for human security, meaning “food, a decent house, relative safety to his/her [winner’s] family, and the perennial honor of being the winner of the game” (Muller, 2012, p. 53). In general, food appears as a “social and environmental justice concern, showing that we view the natural world” (Burke, 2014, p. 1).