The Autonomy Games

When I think about how different forms of media such as books, movies, and music can affect our lives and the way we use various symbols when facing adversity in real life, my mind immediately goes to comparing The Hunger Games trilogy with the ongoing fight that women in America are currently facing in regard to reproductive rights. How could these two vastly different topics have anything in common? You don’t have to think too hard about how these two are compared; the ongoing theme in The Hunger Games is autonomy, and about how the citizens of Panem don’t have any true freedom.If you aren’t already familiar with the books, basically from the ages of 12 to 18, the children of each district have their names put into a raffle, and every year two names are drawn from each of the 12 districts to compete in the annual Hunger Games. Once the names are picked each participant is taken to the Capitol in order to train and figure out a strategy in order to survive. The main character of the series, Katniss Everdeen is tired of feeling like a pawn in the president’s game. Every year they fear for their lives, and every year he gets to sit and watch comfortably from his mansion, children that he knows nothing about, fight for their lives, so they can have the chance of getting out of poverty, and to feed their own district.

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