The articles, "What if the Hunger Games were Real", written by Kirstin Lewis, and "Is Reality TV to Cruel," written by the same author previously stated, both include the effects it had on the viewers watching it. For the gladiator games, without a doubt it made the citizens in the stands more blood thirsty and merciless, and overall bad people. The question than leads to if it does the same to people also watching reality TV shows. From the evidence stated, it can be seen that from watching reality TV, your character and personality becomes worse than what it originally was before. To illustrate, the first article stated states, "Run him through with your spear! Feed him to the lions! No mercy! A crowd of 50,000 spectators is screaming and …show more content…
While that may not have been Kristin Lewis, the author of both article’s intention, she showed many examples of what they have in common. To exemplify, second article states, “Even America’s Funniest Home Videos is disturbing. The winning clips often show people in life-threatening situations, such as getting thrown off a speeding motorbike—and it’s all set to a laugh track” (Lewis 20). From this piece of evidence, it can be shown that many of the TV shows are used as a form of entertainment to ensure that they make enough money while they get a laugh out of the viewers. By doing that, they usually try to select the funniest, most dangerous ones. But when watching it, we don’t realize the serious risk that these people were at; we just want more and more. The section of evidence just stated proves similar to gladiator fighting, as they are both a supposed form of entertainment that in reality, could be considered seriously dangerous. For instance, the first article declares, “The hordes of bloodthirsty fans, however, mostly just expected a good show—and that meant plenty of gore” (Lewis 19). This excerpt from the article helps explain how the fans and viewers of the game were simply there because it was a form of entertainment; they enjoyed watching the gladiators getting disemboweled and such. They seemed to never care at what may happen to the loser, all they wanted was more, more and more. Similar to the evidence that was first stated, whoever the watchers may be, they don’t care what the effect has on the people that get ashamed, embarrassed, etc. It is simply all for entertainment, the risk of the other person is apparently always worth it. To wrap it up, it can be seen that one thing both interest have in common is how it is only viewed as entertainment, but in reality, how dangerous it can really