Dystopian

If I were too choose to live in any fictional world I would live in the dystopian post-apocalyptic nation of Panem, from the Hunger Games. I find it interesting how the people in Panem, such as Katniss and her friends find the strength to live in their world that is very sad to imagine living at. Very different from our community now and with lack of technology and food, visible struggles of finding food and getting through their day by surviving.

You can see the control that the Capitol has over the twelve poor districts, you can see the mistreatment of the people who live in each district and how each person has their personal struggles.

When Katniss volunteers to take the place of her little sister in the annual Hunger Games you can see the fear surrounding everyone in the same district as her, but when they reach the games I find myself compelled to know how far someone will go in order to survive. Given the chance I would participate in the games because I am a very competitive person and I would like to test how far I could get in the games, although I don’t like the idea of loosing, or dying.

This fictional world is one of many that I would like to be a part of, for example, another fictional world would be Virginia Falls, from The Vampire Diaries. I grew up watching the show and I was at a phase were I hoped to be a vampire (I was like 12 okay, don’t judge me). But having the physical ability to compel people in doing something that would only benefit me, and being strong as well as extremely fast sounds like a great deal to me. Let’s not forget about the part of being immortal, I can only imagine the things I could do with all of that time.

However, I have a comparison, the current events happening in the world with COVID-19 feel as if we were living in a fictional dystopian world right now, but more modern than we could have ever imagined. To me, this experience feels surreal and is something I could have never envisioned our world going through. But COVID-19 has made me feel a lot closer to strangers all across the planet, because we are all going through similar struggles to fight this virus off even though we are miles apart from each other, we’re all in this together.

P.S. I miss you, Mrs. Sword and can’t wait to go back to your class!