The hierarchy of needs ties in with all aspects of the hunger games, The things like Physiological needs are the most basic and yet the most common in this story. throughout the story you hear how everyone is starving and doesn't have good places to live, the people are devoid of almost every level of maslows hierarchy of needs. None of the pyramid applies to them because they have neither esteem or safety, their reasons for belonging are non-existent. their every right and reason for existence has been stripped from their already depraved lives, they don't fall under the pyramid that maslow created so what do they stand for, what can they be qualified as?