While we Mundie Moms would do everything we can to protect our children, even if that meant leaving behind our homes, family and friends, the parents in the Hunger Games didn't necessarily have those same options. The parent's role is a very different one in the Hunger Games series. While parents may love their children, many of them seem to accept that the Capitol controls what their children do, not them. The parent's rule seems so limited, or maybe they just allowed it to be that way.
In accepting the Capitol as their ruler, they in some ways, gave up their parental rights. Regardless of how a parent wants to raise their child, or wants them to do, the Capitol makes the final decision. Parent's don't even have a choice when their child is the one entering the games. They seem to accept that, that is their child's fate. If that were my child, I'd be going Shadowhunter on someone. But, where do you go and what do you do when you're from one of the poorest districts?
This is the case for District 11.
Being a district of Agriculture, you would think we'd be a rich, thriving district, but we're not. We're one of the poorest. Though we work along side our children in the orchards and the fields, the Capitol controls what we do. We don't even have enough food to feed our children. Most of what we grow is sent to the Capitol. It's a helpless feeling, watching our children labor such long hours, at such young ages.
Sometimes our children are so hungry that they may eat what they are picking, but if they are caught, they are shot. Do you know how hard that is? We can't even protect our children on our own land! The guards are ruthless, but maybe that's a good thing. It prepares our children for what they may face if they're one of the chosen ones to enter the games.
Rue and Thresh gave us hope and their lives weren't lost for nothing. While our parenting rights may be limited, our children are our hope. They can change the outcome of the Capitol's rule, where we as their parents, just accepted our fate.
Tell us, what would you do if you were a parent in District 11 and had very limited options? Would you have stayed and just accepted your fate and relied on the hope of your children to change the future? Or would you have risked your life and tried to leave, with no resources, and no outside help?
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