The Hunger Games illusion vs. reality

The Hunger Games is really a book about illusion. When Katniss is in the arena during the games she doesn't know what to believe. She doesn't know who to trust who is sincere and who is doing things just for show. The Hunger Games are recorded play by play from cameras for each district to see. Every time someone in the arena makes a decision they are conscious of the cameras watching them and all of the districts watching them also. Doesn't this remind you of how we live today always watched by security cameras and surveillance cameras.
 Most people don't understand that the main reason that the book might show that all the poeple in the arenas are watced are to keep tabs on them and make sure they're alive. Also it brings in the theme of technology and the fact that it may rule their lives. When they are acting just for show it gets in their minds how they have to watch what they're doing.
When she was picked it was also like the fact that people get drafted and pushed into conflicts that they have no intention of fighting and that the innocent people of the world have to deal with the fact that they have no say in the choice of fighting or not. I think when Katniss doesn't know to believe in Peeta or his decisions she stays more wary and alert. It's good for the brain when your not completely always sure of things and when she has to act for the cameras as a different person than she feels inside its confusing and more difficult for survival.