...A dystopia is a city that had a perfect image, but failed and has become a place where the government is in control ruining the city. The stories “The Lottery” and “The Hunger Games” which are both based off of dystopias, have a lot in common, but also have many differences. The main story of “The Lottery” is about how population control was needed to take place by giving everyone a piece of paper. If the paper that was chosen had a black dot you would be stoned to death. For “The Hunger Games,” 23 people would be selected to fight to the death with only one winner, but in this story Katniss and Peeta won together bringing anger upon the government since Katniss had changed the rules. Although these stories both have things in common such...
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...Hunger Games, Star wars, and Ender’s Game hero’s journey all compare and contrast in their approach to the hero’s journey in many ways. There are many parts of the hero’s journey that are alike and different but the ordinary world, refusal, and test/allies/enemies part of the hero’s journey will be analyzed. The part of the hero’s journey that will be compared in this paragraph is the ordinary world which are similar and different in all stories. The first similarity in all stories about the ordinary world is that they are all facing their own problems in their ordinary worlds but all the problems are different. In hunger games in Katniss's ordinary world she is struggling from being poor and she barely has food for her family to eat. In the...
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...and Theseus have done in their stories. Many people haven’t realized that the popular book, The Hunger Games, was based off an old Greek myth called Theseus. Both of these have many similarities but also many differences; this essay will explain and expand on some of them. The subjects that this essay will compare and contrast are the main characters, events, and lastly the plot. In the Hunger Games, Katniss has several specific qualities that can both compare and contrast to Theseus. Some of the similarities between Katniss and Theseus are courageousness, having a positive outlook, and braveness. For example, Katniss was courageous when her sister, Prim, was picked during the reaping and she volunteered for her. Theseus is courageous in the fact that he took on all of his obstacles without much fear. Both Katniss and Theseus have a positive outlook on life even...
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...dystopian society just like the movie The Hunger Games. In Anthem they have their names picked out, and don’t get choose their jobs. In The Hunger Games they live where their parents live. They are also selected to go to war and not die. There is not much difference between these two subjects. Anthem and The Hunger Games are popular among teens because they can relate to them. In Anthem when the people are old enough they get special jobs picked. For instance, Equality 7-2521 wanted to work as a scholar but instead he was chosen to be a road sweeper. Their names are picked for them like Equality and liberty. They have to go to work they can’t just pretend that they are sick, they are forced to go. During one month and special day they have to go to this place and have their mates picked for the night so that they can try to make another...
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...selected in District 12’s annual “reaping” to fight to the death in the country’s televised Hunger Games. Katniss and the male tribute Peeta are taken to the country’s wealthy and controlling Capitol, where they interview, compete for a ranking, and meet the competition. As part of a strategy devised with District 12 mentor Haymitch, Peeta admits on camera that he has feelings for Katniss; the “star-crossed lovers” win massive fan support. In the arena, Peeta pretends to join the group of violent and practiced “career” tributes, while Katniss befriends young Rue. Rue is killed and Peeta injured; Katniss finds and nurses him. The other contestants die one by one until only Katniss and Peeta are left. They pretend to take poison berries in a suicide pact. The Capitol halts the game so both tributes win. - allie-draper. Synopsis print Print document PDF list Cite link Link The Hunger Games After writing the fantasy series The Underland Chronicles, Suzanne Collins departed from the world of fantasy and stepped into a harsh, dystopian creation in The Hunger Games. Published in 2008, The Hunger Games is the first novel in a projected trilogy, and introduces readers to a futuristic dystopian society where an overpowering government controls the lives and resources in twelve different districts. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, of District 12, is the main character of the story. Each year, as punishment for the now demolished District 13's attempted rebellion, two children...
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...was the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is a movie about a collection of districts each being represented by individuals. The winner helps their district because after they win the government gives them food. In the end love comes to shock the districts and make a huge change. The chapter i choose to use first is,"....More Than Its Gonna Hurt You: Concerning violence." The Hunger Games is all about violence. To win the Hunger Games the chracters must kill each other until only one is left. As author Thomas Foster says in his book How To Read Literature Like A Professor, "Violence is one of the most personal and even intimate acts between human beings, but it can also be cultural and societal in its implications." I see this as saying even though a killing may just seem like a simple killing, it can mean so much more in literature. I beleive that symbolization in this story is, what people will do to survive, including putting all morals behind. Foster also describes how violence is not only a physical act but how it can be a "narrative violence". He describes how narrative violence is the violence an author uses to help him further the plot. He says it is the violence of the author and not the characters. For example when Rue dies, this is used to further show not only the emotion and love Katnis shows, but to also show the violence and aggresion that the other chracters show. But when the boy from district ten dies, no one knows how. All this does is move the story along....
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...There are many stories in the world that people enjoy reading. But, there are some stories that people enjoy reading more than others. This is because some are just plain better. Some stories are better than others because they have good character descriptions, better conflicts and exciting climaxes. Just like The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. In The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins gives amazing character descriptions. One for example, was when she described Rue. She writes, “She's the twelve-year-old, the one who reminded me so of Prim in stature. Up close she looks about ten. She has bright, dark eyes and satiny brown skin and stands tilted up on her toes with arms slightly extended to her sides, as if ready to take wing at the slightest sound. It's impossible not to think of a bird.”(Collins 96). In this description Collins not only gives Rue's physical details, but gives us an idea of how she moves. Some may say that The Hunger Games doesn't have good character descriptions but they are wrong. Not all authors can describe characters the way Suzanne Collins did. It is very hard to get the perfect image of the characters in the readers head. Collins not only does this but also gives us an idea of...
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...A Book Review Presented to Mrs. Evangeline Arguelles In Partial Fulfillment Of the Subject Requirement In ENGLISH III MERIKA MONJORVA III-Courage 17 October 2012 I. INTRODUCTION The Hunger Games focuses more on Katniss Everdeen’s hardships and struggles for survival. She bravely faces challenges that come in her way, especially when dealing with life and death situations. Moreover, she also realizes that she must be strong and determined as she chooses a difficult path instead of giving up, which demonstrates her will to survive. The Hunger Games is a 2008 Young Adult novel by Suzanne Collins. The story revolves around 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the nation of Panem in North America. The Capitol exercises political control over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games is an annual event in which tributes aged 12-18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a live TV Show to death. The Hunger Games is the first book in the ground-breaking Hunger Games Trilogy (New York Times Best Selling Series) followed by Catching Fire (2009) and Mockingjay (2010). Suzanne Collins is an American writer and novelist. Collins was named one of ‘Time Magazine’s Most Influential People of 2010’. The Hunger Games was first published on September 14, 2008. The book had sold 800,000 copies by February 2010. The initial price of the book is $10.99. The aim of this book review is to focus more on the characteristics...
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...Hunger Games: Catching fire Written by Suzanne Collins Hunger Games: Catching fire Written by Suzanne Collins Author: Suzanne Collins Publisher: Scholastic Corporation Publishing year: 2009 Book length (pages): 391 (The book’s cover) Catching Fire the second installment of the hunger games trilogy. This time around Katniss and Peeta who already won the games and are touring around the districts. Soaking in the fame and glorious Capitol-life; supposedly… Setting: The setting mainly takes place in three different locations. The first location is Katniss and Peeta’s home; district 12. District 12 is the poorest of all the districts and its main source of income is coal mining. The second district is the home of the game makers and President Snow; Capitol. Capitol is a very futuristic city where all the rich people in the nation live. The citizens there look like they could be Lady Gaga’s relatives, with colorful clothes and excessively much make-up. Moreover, the last location is where the majority of the story takes place; the arena. The arena is electronically created by at least a dozen of workers constantly creating obstacles for the participants to get through. Plot: Catching Fire is a continuation of The Hunger Games. Katniss and Peeta have returned from the arena and are now going on their obligatory tour around the district. President Snow, the leader of Panem, is seeing Katniss as a treat to the establishment and wants to get rid of her. However...
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...“The Hunger Games” Film Review New York Times, John Green- “Brilliantly plotted and perfectly paced” Film Name: The Hunger Games Genre: Dystopian Fiction Director’s Name: Gary Ross Adapted From The Novel and Author: “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins Plot Summary The story takes place in a post-apocalyptic North America, known as the new country of “Panem”, with a government known as, “The Capitol”- a metropolis, that exercises political control over its society. The Capitol has an annual event, “The Hunger Games” to remind the citizens of Panem of the “Dark Days”, and to ensure that they never return. The story begins in a poor, coal-mining district, following a young 16-year old girl, Katniss Everdeen and her fellow tribute, Peetah Mellark. Critical Review In “The Hunger Games”, “Katniss Everdeen”, who was played by Jennifer Lawrence, was portrayed exceptional well. Not only does Jennifer’s appearance resemble all of those of Katniss, her attitude does as well. Instantly, you find yourself attached to Katniss and her family, as you feel sympathetic towards their poverty and situation. After you see Katniss volunteer as tribute for her sister at “The Reaping”, you automatically set your hopes high for her to win the games. Throughout the film, you feel all of the same emotions as Katniss, her fear at the beginning of the games, her miss-trust in everyone around her, and her relief when finally winning the games. “Peetah Mellark”, played by Josh Hutcherson...
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...YA Dystopian Steffan Larsen’s chief points from the article “Why does dad not want to read ‘The Hunger Games’” Young Adult Dystopian fiction has grown as a genre and continues to evolve. But not every generation follows the new genre. Steffen Larsen is giving his thoughts on, why YA Dystopian has not reached his generation, where as books such as Harry Potter have appealed to several generations, including his own. YA Dystopian is one of the biggest and most popular genres today, which is accomplished by hitting the right target group (the teenagers). Steffen Larsen argues why YA Dystopia has not reached his generation as follows: “But most of all- I think- the books tells about manipulation, newspeak and the limits of reality shows”. Here Steffen Larsen reveals his negative view on ‘The Hunger Games’ but also the genre YA Dystopia by using words as manipulation and limits of reality. Particularly the concept of a “reality show” does not have a good renown, especially not in the older generation, where Steffen Larsen belongs. Steffen Larsen’s criticism of ‘The hunger games’ and the genre, could be reasoned with “times have changed” as he also points out: “In the reddish seventies where you overturn capitalist’s and than every thing went good. That is not how it is anymore”. Furthermore, Steffen ironically praises Suzanne Collins for being the only one who tries to dissimulate a new utopia – a dissimulation from which...
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...When I began reading chapter 1 in The Hunger Games, I felt so boring with the first chapter. Because I don’t like the kind of novel is narrator story, it makes me feel sleepy when I read chapter 1, but I try to skip the boring chapter and jump to read chapter 2, I felt exciting again with new details in next chapters. I think that the Hunger Games is an interesting book with some basic detail from chapter 1 to 3 makes reader begin excitedly to understand more about what happen next in this book. There are something that I understand and remember during I read three chapters in the beginning of the story. The Hunger Games is the story with main character and the narrator of the story who is the girl, name Katniss. She is the 16-years-old girl....
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...Marina Olague English 303 Professor Ludwig 03-05-13 Hunger Games: Confronting Violence in Tween Books In The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, everything is excitingly explicitly violent. The book is based on children, who are literally taken away from their parents, turned into soldiers and are forced by adults to kill each other. The troubling reality is that the Hunger games is a symbolic reference to real life situations. Everywhere, there’s abuse, neglect, bullying and other horrors that make life miserable for young people, forcing them to fight for their own survival. Parents are worried about two main things and that is the exposure to violence and psychological burdens that reading or watching the Hunger Games can bring. How are parents supposed to react to children killing children; therefore is this survival of the fittest? The Hunger Games book has parents worried about their children feeling the burden of economic sacrifice. They view the Hunger Games as a punishment that must be tolerated because it puts physical and mental distress on their shoulders. Parents feel that the book has too much violence. Parents are concerned how to approach their children and talk to them about death. Parents are worried about the way the story is told and the outcome it will have on their children after they read it. Parents are worried about what age is appropriate for their children to see the movie because their worried...
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...Have you ever read the Hunger Games book series? Well, if you have not read the series is, it is based on a competition which takes place annually in the country of Panem. Each year, for the brutal competition, a boy and a girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen from each of the twelve districts are chosen to battle in an arena until death. The winner and his or her family is awarded a great life of wealth and happiness, but the losers suffer a humiliating death from their opponent.This battle is televised across the nation. Collins’ style of writing has crossed the world with more than 65 million copies sold worldwide. Why is her writing so unique? It is because of her childhood influence, her avant-garde writing style, and the character...
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...The Hunger Games Trilogy Literary Analysis Paper “At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead. The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.” -Katniss Everdeen (Catching Fire, Pg 118) As I read The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins my mind was constantly bombarded by violence, tragedy and a deadly love triangle. The Hunger Games, Catching Fire and Mockingjay were all emotionally difficult books to read, but they were also very powerful books that made me really think about my reality. The Hunger Games Trilogy also made me think about the meaning of the titles and what significance they have. Words with simple meanings like “hunger” in the title The Hunger Games and “fire” in the title Catching Fire can become vastly complex when used literally and figuratively in a very interpretive context. Before I read The Hunger Games I knew that the title was the name of the games that Katniss is partaking in, but after reading the book I realized there were so many other interpretations of the title. The Capitol’s “hunger” for control is how I depicted the title. The Capitol wants control everything and anything. The Capitol seeks to control how Katniss lives her life. Katniss is constantly told what to do and when to do it, but from a young age she has deliberately disobeyed the laws that the Capitol has forced upon the citizens of Panem. The Capitol claims that they rule Panem in their selfish way for the benefit of the Districts...
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