Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins Critical Thinking Question

Many really hard things are happening throughout this book. Poverty is a recurring theme in Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins as well as in the entire Hunger Games series as a whole. The districts are the object of cruelty and death in this book.

              One piece of evidence of cruelty is during the revolution when Katniss visits District 8. (Collins 86) They visit a warehouse full of wounded from fighting. “The bombs begin to fall” (p.92) Suzanne Collins describes as Capitol hovercrafts bomb the sick and wounded. This shows that there is no end to the Capitol’s cruelty. Most of the people were not likely going to survive but the Capitol still decided to bomb them.

            These types of things happen a lot in real life, just not as extreme. Many innocent people die every day in wars across the world. One example of cruelty in real life is on 9/11. On this day many terrorists hijacked planes to use as weapons to target important buildings in the United States. One was the World Trade Center in New York. Two jumbo jets brought down both towers, killing thousands of people. Many firefighters trying to save these people died when the towers went down. Another example is from the rebellion in Syria. The leader of the government used chemical weapons to kill hundreds of Syrian civilians and children.  This shows that terrible things like the bombing of District 8 in the book can happen in real life too.

            This book shows us what our world could be like in the future. Countries being divided into military districts and violence throughout all of them such as bombings. The book also shows that the poverty and violence that happens in the book are also happening today in the world.