https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f Read the Week 3 reading - the ruling class. Answer the questions below. Add images or gifs to your answers. Select someone in the group to be the speaker (maybe someone who didn't have a chance to speak last week). **BE SURE TO ADD YOUR NAMES TO EACH INDIVIDUAL POST THAT YOU CREATE** en-us 2021-09-22 14:15:15 UTC 2021-09-23 20:54:41 UTC hello@padlet.com evakolcze3 https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1760172784 We will return at 4:40  - I've added 10 mins extra]]> 2021-09-22 14:15:15 UTC https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1760172784 evakolcze3 https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1760172786 We will return at 4:40  - I've added 10 mins extra]]> 2021-09-22 14:15:15 UTC https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1760172786 evakolcze3 https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1760172789 We will return at 4:40  - I've added 10 mins extra]]> 2021-09-22 14:15:15 UTC https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1760172789 evakolcze3 https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1760172791 We will return at 4:40  - I've added 10 mins extra]]> 2021-09-22 14:15:15 UTC https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1760172791 evakolcze3 https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1760172794 We will return at 4:40 - I've added 10 mins extra]]> 2021-09-22 14:15:15 UTC https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1760172794 evakolcze3 https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1760172795 We will return at 4:40  - I've added 10 mins extra]]> 2021-09-22 14:15:15 UTC https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1760172795 https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1763998600 A main difference in color palette is the color disparity between the district's and the Capital's clothing and hair color. 

We see members of the Capital wearing vibrant, colorful and most likely expensive clothing whereas the people in the districts wear pale and bland color tones; the clothes are more rugged and worn in.

This shows a clear comparison of the working and ruling classes how the Capital is in control of these districts, the overall setting of each area also shows this with the lack of infrastructure in each district as compared to the towering skyscrapers of the Capital.

Another sense of this is shown in camera framing and angle, a lot of the scenes in the capital are taken from below giving us the illusion of looking "up" at these individuals, showing us they are above us in social standing, where some scenes with Katniss or others; we are looking down at the character, towering over them. Like we are superior.]]> 2021-09-23 20:17:18 UTC https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1763998600 https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1764007769 In the Hunger games, the working classes are the Districts and our main characters. katniss everdee, peeta mellark, gale, primrose, haymith. Life in the working class is not great. They live in poverty and have to hunt in order to survive.  Examples of this are how Katniss was hunting the Deer for food and how excited she got when Gale gave her bread, as if it’s a rare item. The ruling class sees them as less than them and uses their deaths as entertainment. The characters of Hunger Games directly relates to Marx and Engel’s concept of “The Ruling Class” as the wealthy are dominant and manipulate the working class people. They use their lives as entertainment and they often make decisions which benefits them but makes the working class lives worse. ]]> 2021-09-23 20:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1764007769 https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1764008786 2021-09-23 20:23:15 UTC https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1764008786 https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1764011490 Within "The Hunger Games" district one has complete control over all of the districts. Resources are provided to the other districts to keep them on their feet. The other districts are unable to maintain their own assets, they have to adjust to the rules and ideas that come from the Capital in order to live there lives. This shows that the class that is in control creates this system where those below them must follow their rules in order to gain resources.
-Jacob Borges
-Faysal Al Khaldi]]> 2021-09-23 20:25:12 UTC https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1764011490 https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1764015445 In this excerpt of the film we get an introduction to our main character Katniss and the life she lives in the districts. As viewer we are also shown the disparity in living conditions between the capitol and the districts. The hunger games and the system of picking contestants is shown and Katniss volunteers as tribute after her younger sister is picked (that child would have died). Then we have a last goodbye between Katniss and her family and friend (The guard said 3 minutes they got way less than that) . then we are shown one last scene on a train as Peta (the male tribute) and Katniss meet their mentor (Played by Woody Haralson a very very drunk man. this scene helping to further cement the contrast between the capitol and the district. ]]> 2021-09-23 20:28:12 UTC https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1764015445 https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1764018645 The ruling class control over more then just material production, they also have the control of the production of ideas. The working class is subjected to these ideas and they become the ideas of that society.]]> 2021-09-23 20:30:37 UTC https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1764018645 https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1764022642 Like in the movie, many times the government , (capital  ) does things for which the people are not happy, but in the end they end up making decisions that may be good for them , but not for the rest .
 ]]> 2021-09-23 20:33:32 UTC https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1764022642 https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1764026817 in the Hunger games, the ruling class are the citizens of the capital, led by president snow. in the movie, it appears that the citizens of the capital all live however they really want, mostly in a very fancy victorian way as seen with one of the characters who has a pale white face through the use of makeup much like many victorian women did back in the 1800s. they treat the working class basically as slaves who only exist to support them and entertain them through participation in the hunger games, it connects to Marx and Engel's concept of the ruling class where the prevailing ideas of a particular society are formed by the ruling class to express and justify their position, in this case, they are supreme and all others are below them and only exist to serve/entertain them.]]> 2021-09-23 20:36:45 UTC https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1764026817 https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1764028564 In Divergent, the population is divided into five factions based on shared values (for example, Dauntless is the faction for people who value bravery). Those who don't fit into the factions are called the "factionless" and they depend on other factions to survive. When children turn 16, they take an aptitude test, and they decide which faction they will choose. The protagonist, Tris, takes the test and learns she's "divergent" which means she belongs to more than one faction. Divergents are rare and pose a threat to the government, which is run by a select group of higher-ups. Divergent connects to the reading because of how Tris posed a threat to "the ruling class" because she stood out from the others. In the movie, she was able to withstand the "mind control serum" from the ruling faction. There was also a clear distinction of labour/power dynamics between the factions, which was dismantled by Tris and the other divergents.]]> 2021-09-23 20:38:08 UTC https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1764028564 https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1764032326 The ruling class of the Hunger Games would be the organizers of the games, Effie Trinket, President snow, and Seneca Crane. 

The ruling class in the film is pompous and arrogant. They mock the sacrifice the districts give each year their ENTERTAINMENT. The ruling class states " oh these games are an honor", however, as Gale says the games are just entertainment and all the upper class wants is a good show.  It seems as the ruling class sees the 12 districts as animals for entertainment, like dog or cockfights. They treat the lower class as dirt or pawns. This class values getting rid of their boredom as they live in luxury and have to work for nothing in their lives.  

for instance, that during the time that the aristocracy was dominant, the concepts honor, loyalty, etc. were dominant ....(no explanation needed)

 ]]> 2021-09-23 20:40:59 UTC https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1764032326 https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1764032509 there is a separation within classes between material labour and mental labour. Those who are the thinkers construct the ideas of the class while the workers accept them passively as they are more active within the society, their work giving them little time to contruct ideas of their own.]]> 2021-09-23 20:41:08 UTC https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1764032509 https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1764033079 2021-09-23 20:41:35 UTC https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1764033079 https://padlet.com/evakolcze3/ky7xmthakk4evz5f/wish/1764033639 The people in Panem are forced to live in the jungle and in poor conditions, whereas the people in the Capitol have a luxurious life.

In the Hunger game, people have to kill each other for survival. But, they are just puppets or actors entertaining the citizens of the Capitol. This is the idea that people in the upper class have the power to control the life of people in the lower class.  

Most of the characters from the Capitol in the first 25 minutes of Hunger gamer look unusual. For example, Effie Trinket's outfit is a bright pink cocktail dress, and she put on pale makeup. 


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