M O C K I N G J A Y The third installment in the Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins Mockingjay is the third and final novel in the Hunger Games series taking place in a time of revolution to the people with power. MANIPULATION In Mockingjay, Katniss is forced to make difficult and dangerous decisions which often could result in death. There are two forces fighting each other, the Capitol and the rebels in District 13. District 13 wants to use Katniss as their icon of their upcoming rebellion
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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
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Why did the Pro-Treaty side win the Civil War? The Irish Civil War caused many divisions within Irish Society. The Civil War resulted from divisions within the nationalist movement as a result of the Anglo-Irish Treaty. Sinn Fein split into pro and anti-Treaty factions. The Civil War ended in May 1923 and while there was no surrender by the anti-Treaty forces, the pro-Treaty side were clearly victorious in the war. In this essay I will look at the reasons why the Pro-Treaty side won the war. In
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Mockingjay - Reflection The 2010 science fiction novel Mockingjay, written by Suzanne Collins, comments on the role that faith has in the world and on human endeavour. This specific book of a three part series focuses on the main character Katniss Everdeen as she recovers from her second Hunger Games, her home District, 12, which was burnt down by the government and from losing close friends who were taken prisoner. The novel starts with reluctantly adapting to a very structured and set life in
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Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games is the first novel in a trilogy that explores a future dystopian society. The story is set in "a country that rose up out of the ashes" of North America, after survivors of droughts, storms, fires, floods, hurricanes, and wars fought for their lives. This post-apocalyptic world is run by Panem, an all-powerful central government that controls the people and resources of twelve districts. Each district produces different products that are taken to the Capitol, the
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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.
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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
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The Hunger Games written by Suzanne Collins, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K Rowling and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe authored by C.J Lewis. These novels have many differences in style, era, character attributes, etc. However one common theme that all of these novels share is that each has a separate society from the real world that is portrayed in the novel itself. My thesis is that authors sometimes use the setting as a character itself to magnify the attributes of other characters
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The Hunger Games takes place after the failed rebellion of the Districts against the oppressive Capitol. As a result of the uprising, the thirteenth district was annihilated, and the Capitol instituted a pageant to be known as The Hunger Games. As a form of punishment for the rebellion, the games would take place annually, as during The Reaping (the selection/drafting ceremony) two members of each of the twelve districts, one male and one female between the ages of twelve and eighteen, are drafted
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Gardner 10th Lit Mrs. Brown 28 November 2014 In the book, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins, one can predict the certain events that are going to take place. Katniss Everdeen, one of the main characters shows foreshadowing when she decides to do the group of desperate citizens of District 12 and 13 a huge favor and become their Mockingjay: "I'm going to be the Mockingjay" (Collins 31). She makes the choice of wanting to lead in the fight with the Capitol after, Peeta, a boy that she
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