The Hunger Games

The hunger games contains typical and re-occuring conventions from the Sci-Fi genre. The genre conventions could be categorised into themes such as character roles, technical conventions, narrative themes and iconography/mise en scene. This makes the narrative typical to the genre in many ways. There is as anti establishment ideology theme present in the Hunger Games and this is usually projected through a polysemic narrative device. This is evident in the narrative when the tributes are being chosen and we discover that the districts are ruled over by the government (or the capital) and the annual hunger games are a way of punishing the people as an act of rebellion against them. It is explained that the districts rebelled against being controlled and being left in poverty when the capital has all of the wealth and was flaunting this when people like Katniss are left to hunt their food to provide for their family. This is a typical Sci-Fi convention as usually there is someone in position of power and therefore reflects a hegemonic society. A technical convention which frequently occurs in the Sci-Fi genre is the use of advanced technology. A particular example of this is when Primrose goes to get her blood taken and advanced scanners are used and when we see the tributes lying in the laboratory.