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  • Essay / The future always starts now - 1106

    No one knows what will happen in the future. There's no point worrying about something you can't control or know nothing about, so why worry about the future instead of focusing on the present? Many similar thoughts came to my mind after reading The Hunger Games, which most of the book is about surviving in the present. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins takes place in ancient North America, now a new country called Panem. The country is divided into twelve districts and a capital, and the book takes place in a dark environment where, in principle, there is no freedom. What's interesting about Panem is their Hunger Games, which happens every year, and is an event that takes place for the government to show that they are in charge and can do what they want. wanna. The Hunger Games is a very fascinating story and. showed a form of his own vision of the future. It's not exactly an unrealistic future, but the setting is very dystopian, and we learn this when we follow main character Katniss Everdeen's day during Grim Reaper Day, where she tells us that District 12 is fenced off. by electric fences and barbed wire. If you study the content of the book, the book is about the Hunger Games and not about the event itself "The Hunger Games", and by that I mean that the main characters and the people of the country are in a constant struggle to support "Most have long since given up cleaning coal dust from their cracked nails and their cracked, wrinkled faces." is how the main character describes ordinary miners, and then you already get a glimpse of starvation. in the region. Miners are usually not skinny because the work itself is tiring and requires a lot of muscles and that is why they are usually fat but in this case they are...... middle of paper ... ...m exists here and there, you spend unnecessary energy and moments of your life thinking about something insignificant. Many say you should live in the present and I completely agree with that and not all of your actions should be about what is good or bad for the future but. for what feels good in the present. Katniss makes the mistake of worrying too much about what will happen in the future if she were to die, wondering who will support her family and who will take care of her little sister. Basically, you can understand that she is worried about her family, but she should be more worried by thinking in the moment: what can she do now to help her family cope? After all, she can teach them her talent for hunting and gathering herbs and so on. to do the best for his family in the present. She can't affect anything if she's dead.