42
CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
5.1 Conclusion
After analyzing the novelthere are several points for conclusion that can be drawn. The novel describes about social class and social stratification. The social
class is divided into two types: Upper class and lower class. Upper class is the owner of the production and has the power to control the lower class. This class is reflected
to the Capitol in the novel. In the novel, people of the Capitol are shallow, speak in a funny, affected accent and value surface appearances, plastic surgery, and
entertainment. Being one of the richest districts, they also view the Games as an entertainment in television.Lower class also knownas proletariat or labor class is the
class of people employed for wages, especially in manual or industrial work. In Marxist theory and socialist literature, lower class is often used synonymously with
the term proletariat, and includes all those who expend either mental or physical labor to produce economic value, or wealth in non-academic terms, for those who own the
means of production. The lower class is typified by poverty, homelessness, and unemployment. People of this class, can not finish high school, suffer from lack of
medical care, adequate housing and food, decent clothing, safety, and vocational training. This condition is reflected in District 12 in the novel.
The struggle of the main character is shown clearly in the novel. The writer of the novel has shown a realistic struggle of the main character of the Hunger Games.
This act of the main character shows us that even the lower class has the rights to live. Katniss as the main character of the novel possessed strength, athleticism and
prowess at hunting. At the death of her father, she takes on the role of feeder and
43
money provider through hunting, associated so far to masculinity. Volunteering for her sister is a way to fulfill the role of the father. After the reaping, when she warns
her mother to take care of Prim and not to cry, her position is far more husbandly than daughterly. It makes her start to fight for her life and her family life no matter
what. In the novel, the writer portrayed a reality of a political life and also the differences of the government’s treatment between the rich and the poor during this
time. The novel doesn’t only show the pain of the main character to become a winner, but also exposes the struggle, and capitalist’s power. Katniss struggles as a
lower class is already discussed in previous chapter. It’s about the struggle in facing her life and facing the games.
5.2 Suggestion
Kategori