I think that the moment that I really started thinking that this book had to do with freedom is when Katniss met the two girls that were trying to run away to District 13, a district that everyone thought no longer existed. That part made me think of freedom because they were trying to run away from their district to have a better life. They were trying to be free from the Capitol; I think they didn't want anyone or anything controlling them anymore. For the people of Panem, I think that freedom symbolized something important. But it also symbolized something that they could never have because the Capitol took that away from them.
The Capitol not only took away their freedom, but I believe also their happiness. Every year, twenty three different families lose their children. Is that really fair to them? I think not, not only is it unfair but it is cruel. I mean, those people have been trying to raise and protect their precious children for so long. But in just one second the Capitol can come and snatch them away and enter them into their silly little pathetic games. Those parents can't do anything about that though, they have no freedom. The children have no freedom, nobody has freedom in Panem.
This book makes me think not only about freedom, but also about philosophy and about the rest of the world. How lucky are we, not to have to go through what the children in Panem have to go through. Here in the United States, we are lucky to have freedom. We have amendments that state our freedom. In Panem they did not have any of that. They just had a ruler and so freedom. How selfish if that of the Capitol?
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