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• 1 2017-12-03T10:17:08-08:00 Digital Labor in a Virtual World 7 plain 2017-12-14T11:24:01-08:00 The competitors battle to death in a virtual controlled environment. There are men controlling all the different natural disasters, dangerous animals and creatures as well as the cannon that goes off whenever someone dies in the games. Not only does each team have to fight each other, they also have to deal with anything that comes their way from the controllers. This is a way to also keep every competitor on the same page. In the games some teams formed alliances to defeat each other. Rue from district 11 become close with Katniss. They are hiding in the trees away from Kato and the other competitors that are after them. The controllers put a wasp nest in one of the branches near Katniss and she chops the nest. It lands on the teams chopping away at Katniss's tree. 
  
  
  Virtual games bring out different characters and personalities based on skill set, appearance and attitude. Empire @ play discusses the virtual video game world and how it can become more of a reality. It also talks about personalities been drawn out from different characters. "It is from such stimulation that virtual games emerged, broke loose into ludic freedom only to now be re-intergrated into the assemblages of world capitol, as a means of inducing the "flexible personality". (Witherford) In Hunger Games each of the competitors have their own skill that they use in the games. For example Katniss has her archery skills as well as fast thinking. Peeta has his heavy lifting abilities. Before the games before the big ceremony they each have to come before a board of judges who ask each individual what their skills are. When Katniss comes up to the review board they are completely ignoring her and she flings the bow onto the apple they are eating. They are completely in shock. 
  
  Katniss also gets another identity given to her she is known as the girl on fire. She comes out during the ceremony next to Peeta in a shower of flames. Then during her public interview with Caesar, she is wearing a fiery red dress. He makes Katniss stand up and twirl for him, she is swarmed by flames and the viewers are completely wowed by it.