The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins depicts a dystopian scene where we follow a brave 16 year old Katniss Everdeen in the post-apocalyptic future taking place in the nation of Panem in North America. The nation is run by the Capitol who controls political control over the rest of the nation.

 

In the Hunger Games we follow a nation whose advancement in technology is kept in one region, the Capitol. All the other districts are meant to fend for themselves, they are watched, analyzed, and put under patrol by the capitol. These districts have no electricity and plumbing, all the resources of the nation are put towards the Capitol. They control what media goes out to the public eye. The media that is shown to the main demographic all circles around the Capitol and The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games are a survivalist tournament where teenagers from each district in Panem are picked by draw to represent their district in the games, and no matter what there can only be one winner. Viewers are shown the graphic and violent hunger games, which serves as a reminder to all citizens to remember who is always in control. Viewers seeing the broadcasting of the Hunger Games can use it as a way to tell whether your child is alive or dead.

 

In Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel it takes place in a science fiction setting in Toronto, Ontario where we focus on the death of Arthur Leander in the Elgin Theatre where a worldwide epidemic occurs called the “Georgia Flu”. It infests in all of mankind and causes the “collapse” of society. The book follows the remaining survivors on Earth while following a group of travelling Shakespeare actors and musicians.

After a worldwide epidemic wipes out most of the population on earth, media in the world ended, only weeks after the “Georgia Flu” broke out. We assume due to the mere fact that the flu is highly contagious, being spread through the air. Many people ran home to their loved ones. Yet as the weeks carried on slowly but surely the hosts and broadcasters started signing off. They started saying their goodbyes and wished everyone listening to be careful. Surely afterwards electricity and plumbing ran out, quickly. As the media started to shut off, people got scared, being so used to the connection they had in the world with the power of one button. They felt helpless without the connection that media provided them.

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Overall as humans in this day and age it would be pointless to say that we are not somehow connected to the media surrounding us at any time on any given basis. We live in a society that believes knowledge is power, and in that sense they hold importance to knowing what happens every second of every day. These fictional books propose communist ideals and situations that would not be beneficial to society. It poses an extreme that as much as we d not want to hear about it, we are still fascinated by the concept.

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