...is a survival game that makes in action boys and girls who fight and only one will win the game. The heroine and the narrator of this book is Katniss, a girl of the poor district of the Panem who took the place of her sister at the reaping. When Katniss was a young girl, her father died in the mine explosion. And she was obliged to support her little sister because their mother was not able to take care of them after the death of their father. To support her family, she and her friend Gale that she met in the woods were hunting illegally in the woods. Gale was dreaming to run away from their district, him and Katniss, to live free in the woods and have children but Katniss didn’t agree with him because she didn’t want to have children who could suffer after. Her life changes the day of the reaping, the day of the beginning of the hunger games. She didn’t think that her little sister, Prim, could be chosen for the game because it was one chance in thousands more and the impossible happen. Her sister was chosen as a girl to be a tribute in the hunger games because for each tribute, there must be a girl and a boy to fight in the games. She knew that her sister could die there and she didn’t want that, so she volunteers as a tribute to save the life of her sister. And the boy who was chosen, Peeta, was the baker’s...
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...someday face a world similar to Panem? That this fiction could someday become a reality on certain levels? Within these novels, Collins includes several important themes, including: corrupt politics, starvation vs. greed, and the obsession with entertainment. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen lives in the nation of Panem, a post-apocalyptic North America, with her mother and younger sister, Prim. Her family resides in District 12, the poorest of 12 districts ruled by the wealthy Capitol. Katniss provides for her mother and sister by hunting with her friend Gale in the forbidden woods nearby. As punishment for the districts' rebellion attempt years earlier, the Capitol holds an annual televised event called The Hunger Games. Each district must draw the names of a boy and girl between the ages of 12 and 18. These 24 youths become contestants, called tributes, who must fight to the death in a vast arena created by the Capitol Gamemakers. The lone survivor returns home to wealth and fame. One year, on the day of reaping, Prim's name is drawn. Katniss volunteers to take her sister's place. The other tribute is Peeta Mellark, a baker's son who once saved Katniss' family from starvation by sneaking them bread. Guards put Katniss and Peeta on a train for the Capitol. Haymitch Abernathy, their trainer, accompanies them. He is the only District...
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...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 the death against 23 other children. And finally, the trailer ends with Katniss rising out of the ground into the arena as a voice counts down the seconds until the cannon goes off and the hunger games (not capitalized here, but is elsewhere – make consistent across the paper) officially begins. The genre of this trailer can be classified as action or adventure as the storyline follows a...
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...devastation to the districts and caused the Capital to create the Hunger Games as a reminder to all that the Capital rules with absolute power. The Hunger Games are an annual event that causes one boy and one girl from each district to be selected to fight in an area to the death until one lone tribute remains. It is barbaric and nothing less than a way to promote fear and regulation over the people of the districts. The game and the events involved throughout the movie are consumed with social psychology, kin selection, reciprocity and flight and fight are just a few social psychology concepts that are present in the movie. Katniss does in fact go on to win the games and it was made possible by her use of several social psychology concepts. In the early scenes of the movie they show that Katniss is very much the head of her family and that she is the one that makes sure her family has food. In addition to that, she has been the force keeping her mother and sister alive and well since the untimely death of her father. In the early scenes you watch as the people of district twelve prepare for the annual reaping (selection of tributes), Katniss and her sister Primrose are both possible tributes. Primrose is completely frightened and anxious over being picked; Katniss assures her that everything will be okay. As the reaping begins and the names are drawn Primrose is in fact selected, she is beside...
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...Hunger Games. There, she struggles with her emotions and her will to survive in the arena. The book, intended for a teenage audience, is filled with strong emotional and physical challenges, which Katniss was forced to overcome. Through this journey, the author portrays the good and evil of power. The book starts out in District 12, a poor mining district, where Katniss and her sister Primrose try to scrounge up a living with...
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...government. It is also used as on ongoing government intimidation tactic to keep the twelve districts in line. The Hunger Games are a nationally televised event in which "Tributes" from each district must fight to the death until one survivor remains. The main character is Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen who ends up volunteering in place of her younger sister who was chosen to play in the games. She is then forced rely upon her sharp instincts as well as the mentor-ship of drunken former victor Haymitch Abernathy when she's pitted against highly-trained Tributes who have prepared for these Games their entire lives. If she's ever to return home to District 12, Katniss must make impossible choices in the arena in order to survive and come out on top At first I thought that this movie would pass and after looking deeper into it it actually passed the test towards the very beginning of the movie. The movie has many women involved, and they also all talk to each other. One example that passes is when Katniss talked to her mother about staying strong and not to give up on her younger sister before she left. Katniss also talks to her younger sister primrose just before she is taken away to the games about staying strong and not to worry about her. She also has a converses with Rue who is another tribute competing against her in how to help each other survive the...
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...home to the Meadow and, finally, to the woods, where people of the district are forbidden to go, we learn about Katniss' life in the impoverished part of her district, the Seam, and her family. She thinks about her sister Prim, who is 4 years younger, and her mother, both of whom have depended upon Katniss for survival ever since Katniss' father died in a mine explosion when she was 11. The reaping is a nerve-wracking time because it determines which boy and girl, ages 12 to 18, will serve as the district's tributes in the Hunger Games. Two tributes are drawn in each of the 12 districts, and those tributes are sent to an arena where they fight until only one tribute remains alive. The victor gets to return home, and the victor's district is showered with gifts — namely food. The Games, put on by the Capitol, are meant to punish the 12 districts of Panem as well as to remind them of the Dark Days and how the 13th district was obliterated for its uprising against the tyrannical and cruel Capitol. Against all odds, Prim's name is selected at the reaping. Katniss volunteers to take the place of her younger sister and becomes District 12's girl tribute for the 74th Hunger Games. Peeta Mellark, a boy Katniss' age and the son of the baker, is selected as the other tribute. She remembers Peeta and the kindness he demonstrated toward her when they were children, giving her a burnt piece of bread so that she wouldn't starve. Peeta's selection doesn't bode well for Katniss, who feels...
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...region that was formerly known as Appalachia. As punishment for a past rebellion against the Capitol, in which a 13th district was destroyed, one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 from each district are selected by an annual lottery to participate in the Hunger Games, an event in which the participants (or "tributes") must fight to the death in an outdoor arena controlled by the Capitol, until only one individual remains. The story is narrated by 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, a girl from District 12 who volunteers for the 74th annual Hunger Games in place of her younger sister, Primrose. The male tribute chosen from District 12 is Peeta Mellark, a former schoolmate of Katniss who once gave her bread from his family's bakery when her family was starving. Katniss and Peeta are taken to the Capitol, where their drunken mentor, Haymitch Abernathy, victor of the 50th Hunger Games, instructs them to watch and determine the strengths and weaknesses of the other tributes. "Stylists" are employed to make each tribute look his or her best; Katniss's stylist, Cinna, is the only person at the Capitol with whom she feels a degree of understanding. The tributes are publicly displayed to the Capitol audience in an interview with television host Caesar Flickerman, and have to attempt to appeal to the television audience in order to obtain "sponsors"....
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...the journey or quest that he or she is about to go on. In this novel, Katniss, who possesses a great ability to hunt, is called when representatives from the capitol of her world come to her district for the annual reaping, or when two people are chosen from each district to participate as ‘tributes’ in the Hunger Games. Things seem to go as normal, but when Katniss’s younger sister Prim is chosen; she does something that had never been done before and volunteers herself to go in her sister’s place. She is chosen to go alongside the son of District Twelve’s bakers, Peeta Mellark. After the reaping, she and Peeta are sent to the capitol, where they are prepared to face the capitol, and then the Hunger Games. Katniss then goes into the phase of the formula called ‘The Preperation.’ She and Peeta are both given Prep Teams who dress them up to help them get sponsors. After going through various steps of preparation, Katniss and Peeta are finally sent to the arena where the Hunger Games take place. Once in the arena, Katniss takes off by herself and tries to figure out a way to survive. She faces many tests, including a large forest fire when she is near the edge of the forest, other tributes (including Peeta), and things such as hunger, thirst, and illness. Many of these things nearly cause Katniss to die, but she manges to escape from them. Her road of trials...
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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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...Abstract: This essay focuses on the feminist criticism and the gender roles in key characters of The Hunger Games trilogy. It evaluates the purpose of Suzanne Collins' use of breaking down gender roles and how that shapes the character outside that character's own gender. Themes of survival and humanity are explored and evaluated, putting a specific emphasis on how those themes correspond with gender roles. Both females and males are examined; first in the Hunger Games universe, and then applied to the twenty first century stereotypes of gender roles. All the novels in the trilogy— The Hunger Games (2008), Catching Fire (2009), and Mockingjay (2010)— as well as a criticism from Kristi Tyson, author of Modern Literary Theory of Sexes (2011). The essay explores the question of whether gender is a determining factor of what makes a strong character. Through the research and analysis of the pieces, the essay resolves that Collins actually by-passes gender roles, focusing more on a character's ability to adapt to both gender stereotypes in order to have a well rounded understanding of society. Genders are not the determining factor of a strong character, because gender roles do not matter in the long run of being a human being in general. Word Count: 212 On September 14, 2008, Suzanne Collins published her novel, The Hunger Games. The twisted story line of a barbaric showdown was an instant hit. Katniss Everdeen, the main protagonist of the series, became an idol— girls...
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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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...Name Teacher English IV 29 April 2013 Katniss the Provider Katniss Everdeen has quickly 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...
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...Collin’s novel “The Hunger Games,” the story of Katniss Everdeen, a girl from District Twelve in post-apocalyptic earth, faces many trials and terrors when she is sent to participate in the annual Hunger Games. The steps begin with ‘The Call to Adventure’ or when something calls the main character to make the journey or quest that he or she is about to go on. In this novel, the main character Katniss, who possesses the ability to hunt with great ease and expertise, is called to saving her sister Prims life when she is announced as a tribute. When the representatives from the capitol of her world come to her district for the annual reaping, or when two people are chosen from each district to participate as ‘tributes’ in the Hunger Games, Katnis realizes that her life will never be the same, and for her Prims life is much more important then her own. Katnip as her beloved friend would call her does something completely unheard of and volunteers herself to go to the games in place of her sister. “Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.” She is chosen to go alongside the son of District Twelve’s bakers, Peeta Mellark. After the reaping, she and Peeta are sent to the capitol, where they are prepared to face the capitol, their people, and above all the Hunger Games. Katniss then goes into the phase of the steps called ‘Refusal of call/reluctant hero’, thus is when the hero, Katniss refuses to believe that she is the true hero of the novel. Believing in herself was...
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...Katniss Everdeen was a sixteen year old girl that lived with her mother and her little sister Prim in District 12. Katniss’s family depended on her to hunt for food ever since her father died in a mine explosion when she was only eleven years old. At the reaping, the mayor gave a speech about how the government in North America fell and the country of Panem took over. There was a war between the Capitol and the districts, and the Capitol won. To remind the districts not to rebel, the Capitol created the Hunger Games. Every year, two tributes (one girl and one boy) from each of the twelve districts are chosen to fight to the death in an arena and only one person can win. The mayor then introduced Haymitch, District 12's only living Hunger...
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