Free Blog: Mocking Jay Riots

This class has taught me a lot of things I didn't know. For instance the word riot and what a riot is  I have never learned it before this class. Or at least don't remember that I have. So this class is many about violence provoked by people for a reason. Usually that reason is long term. And people get tired of long term things that don't change and things that affect or relate to them. So I want to talk about The Hunger Games the recent one that came out. As I saw it, I realized how much of related it to everything I had read and learned in my ENN195 class. The different districts, are all the same, people work hard and barely have food to eat. And the higher class lives all fancy and dresses differently with fur coats and ridiculous clothes that look like Halloween costumes to me. But since the first movie it has always been the same, the fight for freedom starts with Katniss. She's the reason people start to fight back. In the books and the articles we have read in class. None really start with a person acting up against the government.  Usually caused by events that are unfair and are led by people who are tired/hungry or want equality. The recent movie I saw relates to the riot of 1935. When the people go against the government and start acting up and creating riots. Mayor Laguardia makes a speech and calls the people "criminals" and warns them that for their actions there are consequences. And in the movie the President Snow does the same he mentions he wants to scare the people from rebelling so he figures he would use the word "criminals" to describe the actions of rioting against the government. Through out the movie we see more and more people fighting the authority. We see fires burning out. President Snow tries to enforce the authority to beat down people and kill them so that others don't rebel against them. But everyone sees hope in Katniss, so as long as she's alive people won't lose hope but they will rebel against the government and the way the system is.  Theres a new district supported with people who want change and they plan to take the capital down. Sorta like in all the articles we have read and learned about.