we say the right of his very life, because it leads to our third example, how the old man in District 11 was killed.
The man who started the unifying act was killed because his attitude was seen as a trigger of rebellion that affected district people to follow his courage and united Collins, p. 100.
That powerful party, the Capitol‟s government, wouldn‟t allow freedom of speech or anything in the Districts that may threaten their power and authority. They made themselves
the „highest‟ by stomping the Districts down, seizing their right to speak and even to live if they dared to stand against them.
Another example of seizing Districts people‟s rights to know what happened is when they limited the information broadcasted. The Victory Tour was supposed to be broadcasted
nationally from the beginning to the end, but the footage was cut off when the unifying act happened, so when the old man got shot, it was also off the record Collins, p. 99-100. If the
other districts knew what happened, it would be a kind of encouragement to stand against the Capitol, according to the government. This is also evidence that the colonizer also controls
the knowledge of the colonized so that the colonizer can stay in its powerful position. Thus, Said‟s statement that power and knowledge are inseparable is right in the case of
the Capitol. The Capitol must obtain and control all knowledge to keep the power to colonize and their knowledge in order to maintain their advantage in colonizing; they should have the
power to do so. This discussion of the link between power and knowledge leads into the focus in the next section; the main discussion being on how the districts could do an uprising
against the Capitol with limited information, which is in contrast to what Said‟s theory suggested.
B. Katniss and The Districts’ Uprising
Postcolonial theory is partly a response to, and a resistance against, the endurance of colonialism and is unashamedly political with its intent to change political, cultural and social
structures to enable democratic societies for all AmalTreacher. It basically says that Colonizers often do not allow democratic societies to develop among the colonized side or
between the colonized and the colonizer. The Capitol ruled the whole of Panem, redefined their cultures and social structures, and thereby controlled them by monopolizing their
resources to benefit the Capitol; Panem is obviously not a democratic society. However, when the oppressed society has been suffering for so long, when to live is harder for them
than to die, they no longer have a fear of death and it‟s only a matter of time until someone gives the spark and an uprising is inevitable. Now what does a person need to give that spark
of rebellion? I imagine Said would answer that if you want to produce power then the knowledge of how you are doing it shall be a necessity. However, all examples from Katniss,
interestingly, show the opposite. Katniss and her speech in District 11 was one example of a circumstance when a spark of
power wasproduced by someone who wasn‟t even aware of or had knowledge about any
rebellion. From the colonized party, we have Katniss and Peeta, teenagers from District 12 who had never been close to the Capitol, its concerns and anything related to it. Even until
they were chosen as tributes in the 74
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Hunger Games, being in the Games once would not help them to gain any more knowledge about the Capitol‟s system of government or the
„inflammable‟ situation around the Districts after the Game. According to Said‟s theory, one is supposed to know either about how to plan an uprising or execute and organize a rebellion
to gain power.However in contrast, Katniss and Peeta did n‟t know how to unite people or
start an organized rebellion. The only thing they knew at that time was that President Snow had threatened Katniss. Therefore, they acted in-love to prove that the night-lock action was
just because of their love so that Snow would not hurt those who Katniss loved. The speech
