Fiction is "the act of pretending, inventing or imagining", but in Suzanne Collin's book, The Hunger Games, fiction is only the reflection of what happens is already happening in today's world ("Fiction"). Could this fictional novel, The Hunger Games, really be the future of America? Well, the book's major themes, such as inequality between rich and poor, suffering as entertainment, the importance of appearance, and government control, suggest that the answer is yes. Primarily, the main comparison between the novel and our world today is the theme of inequality. between rich and poor. In The Hunger Games, there is a huge gap between the rich and the poor. With the rich living in the city's capital, Panem, and the poor living in the twelve districts, "the result is therefore a huge disparity between their lives and those of the poor" ("The Hunger Games"). This lack of equality is revealed in several ways throughout the novel. The first example is food and starvation in District Twelve, also known as “the safe place to starve” (6). Katniss and her family struggle to survive, forcing Katniss to hunt illegally outside the district's electric fences. Without his hunting, his family would starve. Another example of inequality is the tesserae system and the way tributes are chosen for the games. Harvest Day is when tributes are chosen to participate in the Hunger Games. The idea is for the draw of names to be as fair as possible, but that's not true. In addition to registering children's names for the first time, children can register their names again in exchange for additional rations of food and oil. Therefore, poor people are more likely to have more entries than rich families, due to middle of paper......creative or imaginative art form? Or does he draw his ideas from today's world? In the case of Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games uses major themes to show the connection between fiction and reality. The real question is: are the odds still in your favor? Works Cited Collins, Suzanne. The hunger games. New York: Scholastic, 2008. “Fiction” print. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com, 2014. Web. May 2, 2014. "The Hunger Games - Hypable Book Theme." Hypable. Ed. Brandi Delhagen and Donya Abramo. Hypable, 2013. Web. May 1, 2014. “The Hunger Games.” SparkNotes. SparkNotes LLC, 2014. Web. May 1, 2014. “Survivor.” TV.com. CBS Interactive Inc., nd Web. May 2, 2014. “Hunger in America.” Outnumbered by hunger. Feeding America, 2014. Web. May 2, 2014. “Hunger in the United States.” Bread. Convio, 2014. Web. May 2, 2014. “William J. Clinton.” The White House. The White House, nd Web. April 29. 2014.