...your life? Would you fight? In Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games the protagonist is faced with the dilemma of having to survive in the Hunger Games. The Capitol decides your future. What you’ll get to fight with, the land that you'll be fighting on. They control everything and everyone in Panem. They control your life and if you choose to disobey, they'll wipe your whole district out. The Hunger Games is a thrilling ,twisted, gruesome fight your life. The reaping is an annual event that takes place at every district in Panem. They use the reaping as a way to control all the districts. Katniss believes “ Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch - this...
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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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...ever been taken away from you family and friends? Been forced into a game where to stay alive is the only way to win? That is what the hunger game is. A violent game that 24 contestants are chosen to fight one another and the winner will never have to work again. In the Hunger games Suzanne Collins uses characterization to show how Katniss uses survival techniques the love for her family and friends and tested her trust to the people around her. The love Katniss show in the book is very relevant right at the beginning of the book when Prim, Katniss younger sister, is choose to be in the hunger games. Katniss’s love for her sister propels her to volunteer and take Prim’s place in the Hunger Games. She knows that if she goes into the hunger games she will die but does it anyway. Katniss doesn’t just love her sister she also loves her mom, the town she lives in, and a boy named Gale. She desprentaly want to go home once she leaves and fights for her freedom to go home throughout the book. Her relationship with gale is confusing to her but reader know that she loves him “Finally, Gale is here and maybe there is nothing romantic between us, but when he opens his arms I don't hesitate to go into them” (Collins 38) She tries to deny it but readers should be able to figure it out. Katniss knows how to survive and survival is the key factor to winning the hunger games. From the beginning you know that Katniss can hunt and this helps win the hunger games but survival is not just hunting...
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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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...Anything. It’s such a powerful force.” “The Lottery” is a short story written by Shirley Jackson about a woman who becomes singled out in her society due to a random selection. On the other hand, The Hunger Games is a movie directed by Gary Ross about a girl who must fight for her life while keeping everything she believes in. After reading “The Lottery” and watching The Hunger Games, the conflict throughout the two is very comparable while the protagonists, and how they resolve their conflicts, are contrastable. The conflict presented in “The Lottery” and The Hunger Games are alike in many ways. The Hutchinson’s awaiting their...
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...At a Glance Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her sister’s place when Prim is 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...
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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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...become famous heroine. She had a large amount of factors that helped her win the hunger games. Her role as a provider in her family helped her in many ways. Not only did she have the knowledge to be able to thrive, and survive in the wild; she also knew she had to win the games to return to district twelve, and protect her sister, Primrose Everdeen, and their mother. Since her father died when she was the age of twelve, she knew that she would have to take his place in the family. Before he died her father taught her all he knew about hunting. This is where she received all of her skills (SparkNotes Editors). Katniss’ role in her family was just as a father would be. She was the provider, caretaker, and essentially the backbone of the family. Katniss would hunt and gather food to either feed her family or sell to earn money. With her being a hunter, she had amazing archery skills. This gave her a huge advantage in the games (Bethune 1). This allowed her to get food for herself. Also, with her knowledge of nature, she knew what was edible and what was not edible (Bethune 1). This saved her and Peeta from eating poisonous berries, unlike their counter-parts who lost their life this way. So in a way, she was also a provider for Peeta. Since Katniss and Peeta were from the same District, they had a naturally formed bond, or alliance. Alliances also played a huge role in helping Katniss winning the games (Bethune 1). Katniss is used to fending on her own. This gave her an edge that...
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...The Hunger Games Setting The Hunger Games is this first novel in a series of three written by Suzanne Collins in 2008. Katniss Everdeen, one of the stories main characters, lives in the country of Panem. Throughout the course of novel Katniss is in different places such as District 12 and the Capitol. Panem is the country where Katniss lives with her family. This country is split into thirteen different districts. Katniss and eight thousand others call District 12 their home. District 12 is a very poor coal mining district. Katniss referred to District 12 as “where you can starve to death in safety.” This lets us know that it is a very poor area to live in considered the residents are struggling to put food on the table. It was extremely hard to find food in there, and many families lived in poverty. The part of District 12 that Katniss lives in is known as the Seam, which is where the coal-miners live and work. The Seam is located on the border of District 12 next to a forest. District 12 is enclosed by a high chain-link fence topped with barbwire. The electric fence is used a deterrent to predators that live in the woods. The merchant area in District 12 is a step up from the Seam. The mayor and his daughter, along with other families such as Peeta Mellark's, lived in the merchant area and are well-off for District 12. It was mentioned by Katniss that the merchants "lived above their businesses," suggesting that the merchants' homes doubled as their shops as well. The...
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...Throughout the novel The Hunger Games, the author makes powerful statements about consumerism and commodity culture, privacy and performance. Consumerism is portrayed in the name of Katniss’s district. While commodity culture is seen in the Hunger Games, the portrayal of the Capitol and it’s residences. Statements about privacy are made whenever Katniss has to be aware of what she’s saying. Examples of performance are seen in Katniss throughout the entire novel. A big example of consumerism in the novel is the nickname given to Katniss’s district. In the beginning of the book Katniss says, “Our part of District 12, nicknamed the Seam, is usually crawling with coal miners” (4). It is also mentioned in the book that District’s 12 main exports to the capitol is coal. By definition a “coal seam” is a single layer of coal in the ground, while a “coal bed” is many seams stacked on top of one another. There is more coal located in a bed, meaning more coal can be mined from it. Katniss even says, “The people before us mined coal as well. So the miners need to go deep in order to mine anything”. That paints a picture of manifest destiny. The Capitol believes there is always going to be more coal or something better if they keep having District 12 mine deeper and deeper. But based on District 12’s nickname and what that nickname means, there might not be as much coal available, as the Capitol would like to believe. Commodity culture is very prominent in the Capitol as well...
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...The author of The Hunger Games is Suzanne Collins. She lives in Sandy Hook, Connecticut. The reason she wrote this book was to write a story based on the myth of Theseus and the Monotaur. The theme of The Hunger Games is survival. A better theme would be doing something completely out of you way to help the people you love. “Katniss, the girl who was on fire!” and “ I volunteer as tribute…” are two sentences from the story that supports the two themes I chose. I enjoyed the book because it showed how much Katniss cared for her sister, family, and society when she volunteered as tribute. She did it so her younger sister did not have to participate in The Hunger Games. I liked that Peeta and Katniss ended up being ‘smarter’ than the gamekeepers...
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...Love stories are not always like what many think with two lovers destined to be with one another. Although many stories end with “happily ever after,” some end in death or unfortunate situations. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is about two lovers from enemy families, face many great obstacles to be together but results in multiple deaths from both families. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, is about a teen named Katniss who volunteers as a tribute in the Hunger Games, where competitors kill one another to be last one standing. Katniss gets paired up with Peeta and together, they pretend to stand out from the rest through romantic story, gaining attention and a higher chance of survival. Romeo & Juliet from...
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...The Hunger Games, the award-winning book by Suzanne Collins, takes place in Panem more than one hundred years in the future. Panem is the country created after the fall of the North American government. The setting plays a major role in the plot of The Hunger Games. Because it is set in a dystopian future, the hunger games are acceptable even though it is murder. If it was set in present time, the games would be seen as something awful. The setting allows such things to happen without much protest. Katniss Everdeen, the protagonist, is a 16-year-old girl who lives in district 12 of Panem. She has black hair, which is usually braided, olive skin, and gray eyes. Although she is thin and not very tall, Katniss is considerably strong. As well...
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...This essay will examine The Hunger Games trailer using the Storytelling Method and the Gender and Sexuality Method, as well as incorporate an outside source that helps further the discussion of Katniss’s character as a challenge to typical hegemonies and ideologies. (don’t use plural here) This is a fine preview. Can you add a sentence that indicates anything more about what you found in your evaluation? The Hunger Games trailer begins with Katniss Everdeen sneaking through the barbed-wire fences that gate in her town. She runs off to meet her handsome guy friend, Gale, (so he may be handsome and a “guy” but this is a bit informal. Handsome is subjective, right? So we would probably want to describe him as merely her “male” friend) where they go on to talk about running away from their confined homes to live in the woods together and no longer be under the power or their (?) “rulers”. The trailer then shows their town (District 12) gathering for the picking of the tributes who will be involved in the next annual Hunger Games. While there, Katniss assures her little sister, Primrose, that her name cannot be drawn because it is only in twice. Sure enough, Primrose’s name is called and Katniss comes to the rescue to volunteer as tribute in place of her sister. After Katniss is picked, a boy named Peeta Mellark is also chosen to be a tribute. They are then taken away on a train and the trailer shows their parts of their journey as they prepare to go into the arena and fight to...
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...Hunger Games Daily The Hunger Games Summary The Hunger Games is a game where two tributes for each of twelve districts, one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eight-teen, would go to a public arena and fight till the death, until one soul is left. The Districts in which the tributes are chosen from are post-apocalyptic. The people of these districts survive on what they can make or find by selling things to the Capital. By the Districts needing to sell goods and provide goods for the Capital, they become subordinates to the powerful and advanced Capital. This past Hunger Games marked the seventy-fourth year of the event. Leaders of each district and help the reaping which would be the selection of the two tributes form their district. The first eleven district’s reaping’s went normal, but something special for the first time happened in District 12. Main Character: Katniss Everdean Katniss Everdean is a young sixteen year old girl from District 12 that would be the first volunteer from there district. This young girl is a very skilled hunter and archer. Katniss also has the grit to show what she believes and how she feels, which cases problems for her later. Katniss was the backbone of the Everdean household. Her father died in a mining accident years before, which caused Katniss’ mother to not be able to take care of the family like she used to. Katniss had to step up and be the dominate rule of the house so her family wouldn’t die. Hunger...
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