The Hunger Games contains typical and re-occurring conventions from the Sci-Fi genre. The genre conventions could be categorised as narrative themes, character roles, iconography/mise en scene and technical conventions. The narrative is typical of the genre in many ways.
The narrative theme of an anti-establishment ideology is present in The Hunger Games. This is seen in the particular scene when a large screen in used to broadcast the history of Panem to district 12 before the reaping. In the broadcast, they show how the districts tried to revolute against the Capitol and how the Hunger Games is a consequence of their ancestors actions. This shows that the districts are against the Capitol and tries to defy their power and orders, however, due to them being underclass they were unable to defeat the Capitol and now must serve them as punishment.
A classic iconography found in the Sci-Fi genre is military officers, this is present repeatedly in the Hunger Games as they use military officers in white uniforms to keep the citizens in line.
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