The selective Service Act in 1917 was a method used to ensure that all groups in the population would get called into service. Although thousands of men volunteered for military service, a good amount of recruits were drafted into the army by the system. The system required all men between the age of 21 and 30 to register for possible induction into the army. Under the act about 2.8 million men were called because of the lottery. The method used by the Selective Service Act is similar to the method used in Panem for the Hunger Games. The names of kids age 12 to 18 are put into a lottery, the names of one boy and one girl are drafted, and those two will go into the Hunger Games. There, they will fight for their life against other lucky tributes, and in the end only 1 out of 24 tributes will survive and be crowned winner. When men came back from the war, they came back with injuries that forever reminded them about the horrible war and that in reality there was no winner, there was only a survivor. When you “win” the Hunger Games, you don’t win anything but attention and are destined to sponsor the future tributes of the games. Just like in the Hunger Games, in the war there are no winners; only survivors.
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May 2014
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