The government through the Gamemakers media supervises the winners‘
life and asks them to act as it wants. By supervising the winners, the government prevents them to use their position to influence the society. By limiting their acts,
the government can control the society through media.
2.2.3 Sociology of Literature
Literature is reflection of human life in certain era. Discussing about human life, it means we talk about how they behave, especially how they express their problem
in life. Their problem then becomes experience although some people also have same experience. This experience can be in a form of novel, short story, poem,
and etc. Those are literature that comes from human‘s experience. In other words, literature is an artwork which represent human‘s problem in their society.
There are several relationships between literature and society. According to Sapardi 1979, there is always relationship between the author, literary work,
and society. The author is member of a society. In creating literary work, surely he can‘t be detached from the society he lived. It means literature will only exist if
there is society. Another relationship between literature and society is also explained in
Faruk‘s book. Social life actually is very close to literature. Social life as same as literary work, they are seen as something fictitious and imaginative. Although
fictitious and imaginative, they are also seen as something realistic and social. Literature can reflects different objects and movements from objects and
movements that come from direct experience 2013:51. Literature is one of social
interactions that represent social structure. In other words, literature is an imaginary interaction environment that reflects the pattern of interaction within
real social life. There are three types to define sociology of literature. First, sociology of
the author. The author as the creator of literary work cannot be apart from his social status in society, social ideology, and relationship with the readers. Second,
sociology in literature that focuses of the literary work itself. The main point from this type is the purpose and the messages that relates to social problem. Third,
sociology that relates to the readers with social effect of literary work. However, media also have the relationship with literature and the society.
The function and the form of media bring great influence to literature. They can be used to spread ideology of certain group Sapardi, 2003: 43. For example,
magazines which publish literary work such as Kisah, Horison, and Pujangga Baru surely have different purpose. This difference will bring the impact to
literary work that the editorial team publishes and the readers. From those statements, it can be concluded that literature is reflection of
society and both writer and society influence each other. In order to analyze the meaning of The Hunger Games that shows about relationship between the
government, the society, and media, I emphasize on the aspects of the social and political issues of the work. Sociology of literature is the most appropriate
approach to be used in my analysis about the government‘s control over the
society through media. In fact, sometimes literary works represent those issues.
2.3 Framework of Analysis
