1. CHILDREN IN CONFLICT KAIN SPARKS, SABRINA SISSON, SHELBY PARROTT

2. Roles of children in conflict Question: What are some roles of children in conflict? How does this influence the characters in The Hunger Games? Katniss must go to the Hunger Games and fight for her life but try not to kill Peeta, she must also fight for her family. They get put on tv and they think it's some kind of sport, but they fail to realize that those children are people too. They are forced to kill each other to save themselves. Children should not have to face this. The capital have full power over all the districts its kind of like a threat like they say if you don't do what I say then I will make your kids fight in the hunger games. Hundreds of thousands of children are used as soldiers in armed conflict around the world. Many children are abducted and beaten into submission, others join military groups to escape poverty to defend there commutations or out of revenge, regardless how children are recruited and of their roles child soldiers are victims whose participation in conflict bears serious implications for their physical and emotional well being.

3. Effects of war on children Question: What are some physical/mental effects of war on children? How does it relate to The Hunger Games? The effects of war on children is never an easy thing. It leaves children emotionally scared, and left feeling hollow and alone. Children have been used in war for many years, and they usually have little to no choice. In the novel The Hunger Games, 16 year old Katniss Everdeen faced many effects of war. The effect of the rebellion that district 13 did years ago, has effected their way of life ever sense. It is what made the Capitol crack down and make the hunger games. After the war and the Capitol gaining its power, its children were deeply effected by its war. Children are still effected by war today. In many places children are killed, and maimed by bombs and battle, some are even reduced to be child soldiers. If they are not in the war, they are effected by their parents and loved ones being killed or taken away, or illness. War also has many economical effects, so many children are poor and left starving. Their mental state is also left unstable. They can be left with trauma,vulnerable more vulnerable, impressionable children the effects can lead to mental disorders and perhaps being sent to hospitals.

4. Current examples of children in conflict When he was just 12 years old, Ishmael Beah was taken from his family after his town of, Sierra Leone was attacked. he was drugged, and forced to kill. This connects to the hunger games because in the novel, the main character, Katniss is forced to kill in a contest she partakes in. At age 14, Than Aung was at an army holding center with some classmates, some soldiers asked them if they wanted to join the army or go home, many of them stated they wanted to go home. They took the thirty or forty that said that, stripped the, naked, and gave them a tiny bit of rice. This connects to The hunger games because the kids that were chosen as tribute didn't have a choice, they had to do it wether they liked it or not.

5. Works Cited Shelby: Thomas, Letty. "THE EFFECTS OF WAR ON CHILDREN." www.warchild.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 April 2013.. Kain: Sabrina: