Handmaid's Tale and The Hunger Games

The Handmaid's Tale & The Hunger Games series Offred...a Handmaid in a totalitarian society where a few fertile women must provide offspring for those most priveleged in society. Always watched. No freedom. No love. No past. Secrets. Forbidden affairs. Finally, Offred's own personal rebellion is discovered, and she is taken away. But to imprisonment, or freedom...? The United States is no more. Citizens are perceived to be under constant surveillance. The Eye. "He looks at me, and sees me looking...Then he winks... Perhaps it was a test to see what I would do. Perhaps he is an Eye." "Or sometimes, a black-painted van, with the winged Eye in white on the side... When they pass, we avert our eyes." Citizens live in a dehumanized state. Almost bare bedroom Same food every day Supervised while bathing, even going to the bathroom Can't leave the house except for specified times No freedom of speech Propoganda is used to control the citizens of society. "When that was over, they showed me a movie Know what it was about? It was about life in the Colonies.... they spend their time cleaning up. Sometimes it's just bodies.... The other colonies are worse, though, the toxic dumps and the radiation spills." --Moira The Aunts try to scare the Handmaids into behaving. 16 year-old Katniss Everdeen from District 12 takes her sister's place to participate in the 74th annual Hunger Games along with Peeta Mellark. Only one tribute out of 24 competing will survive and bring glory and food to their district. Her choices inside and outside the arena change their fate and their lives forever and she becomes the face of a rebellion. Citizens are perceived to be under constant surveillance. The tributes' every move in the arena is televised live 24/7 for the whole world to see. Every murder, every betrayal, every sacrifice, every tear. Citizens in the districts are kept in line by Peacekeepers, the Capitol's soldiers. They carry out executions and punishments for any behavior out of line. Citizens live in a dehumanized state. "For three days, we'd had nothing but boiled water with some dried mint leaves...All forms of stealing are forbidden...punishable by death. But it crossed my mind that there might be something in the trash bins... Unfortunately, the bins had just been emptied. The realization that I'd have nothing to take home had finally sunk in. My knees buckled...It was too much. I was too sick and weak and tired, oh, so tired. 'Let me die right here in the rain.'" Propoganda is used to control the citizens of society. "They're all gathered at a television screen.... It's always the same. War footage. Propoganda. Replaying the bombings of District 12. An ominous message from President Snow."