Who has power in The Hunger Games?

     Who has "power" in your text?  How does that power get shown?

     In the book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, President Snow and the Capitol have power.  This book is about how in the future country Panem, there are 12 districts and a Capitol.  Every year, each district has to randomly chooses one girl and one boy between the ages of 12 to 18 and puts them into an arena to fight to the death.  This annual death sentence to children is called "the hunger games" and it is televised to everyone in the districts and Capitol.  

    The main character Katniss Everdeen is one of the contestants in the "Games" and she experiences the power of the Capitol firsthand.  In the arena, "game makers" control all "natural disasters" and mutations to make the games more interesting for the Capitol viewers.  This is one way that the Capitol has power over the children in the arena and the districts.  People in the districts are constantly being reminded that themselves or their children will be picked to have a 1 out of 24 chance of survival.  In the arena, game makers always injuring and killing people to remind the tributes of their power.  This is how the Capitol's games scare people into staying in line.

   The Capitol also has power over people's lives in the districts.  It keeps people from running away by surrounding each district in an electrified chain-link fence.  It keeps people working under the threat of execution.  It also makes sure that the people of the districts have barely any food, but enough to keep going.  The Capitol is also always reminding the districts of what happens when you rebel and how the it blew up District 13 to remind the citizens of (once again) their power.

    Obviously, the most powerful thing in this book is the Capitol.  Unless someone successfully rebels against them… Read the next book to find out!