The novel The Hunger Games written by Suzanne Collins is a fictional representation of sport in society today. Throughout the novel there is a strong correlation on how the portrayal on sport and “games” does not relate to sport in today’s society. In this novel, the game-makers stress the idea that acts of violence and death are a key source of entertainment. However, sports in today’s society we promote fairness, equality and safe play as the source of entertainment as they have shown in society today in the NHL where they have now brought in the police 
to charge hockey players for illegal headshots, to disallow the carnage that has been going on and finally bring in a safe atmosphere to the game of hockey and set an example for other sport industries to do the same. This essentially helps the reader better grasp the thesis, that The Hunger Games is a fictional portrayal of sport in contemporary society. There are many elements in the story that will support the thesis, which are the fact that in sport, humans are not able to control the outcome as they did in the novel when they changed the weather and sent lethal animals on the tributes. Another point to support the thesis is that the charter of rights in freedoms in our society would strictly prohibit the games entirely as they make you kill each one another and give you no option of whether or not you can participate. The last point that will be explained to prove the thesis, as it is stated before, sport in contemporary society promotes education, health and safe play unlike the violence that was stressed in the novel which gives the reader a distorted view on sport today.

From the non-fictional perspective of this novel, they could refute arguments by saying that humans can control the outcome of the game by cheating and paying players to throw the game. Realistically that is wrong and should not happen in sport in the society we live in today and this is considered morally wrong as stated in(example), and shows that the Hunger games is non-fictional and does not represent contemporary sport today. Another claim that could be made to our arguments is the fact that athletes decide to break the law and use their equipment as weapons to harm other athletes, as for this claim in no way will you get away with it like they do in the Hunger Games when Rue the 12 year old girl is speared through the chest with no consequence to the murderer this shows that police as they would in society would interfere and there would be severe consequence for his actions as everyone who committed a murderer. As for the counter argument saying that, no the Hunger games does not promote death and violence as the source of entertainment, rather it promotes competition and athleticism this is false, the Hunger Games is in no way portraying anything other then a blood slaughter that people love to watch as they see that it gives the competitors a false sense of hope as stated by the mayor (example) and does not even give the competitors a fair playing field at all as there are twelve year olds going up against eighteen year olds.

Throughout the Hunger Games, the Game Makers clearly tamper with the environment of the arena by controlling the weather and conditions in the arena. For example, the Game Makers set fire to the forest in which Katniss was running towards in order to escape the blood shed that was happening in the middle of the arenas, which evidently left her crippled and unable to compete for a few days, which gave her an unfair advantage from the beginning of the Games. This shows that the Game Makers are able to control the outcomes of the who wins the Game. Another element of proving that the Game Makers tamper with the outcome of the Games is that they can clearly change the rules at any given time in order to sway the outcome depending on what player is dominating the game. (Example). Another prime example that the game makers are able to control the game is how they released the mutated wolves (non-natural born animal) in order to pin the remaining competitors in the Cornucopia to battle to the death. In conclusion, the Hunger Games i

Throughout the Games, it demonstrates murder and other severe acts of violence, which would be prohibited in sport in contemporary society today. As stated in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Section 7A, “The right to liberty incudes the right to make fundamental personal decisions in addition to freedom from physical constraint and interference with physical freedom.”