Hunger Games: From a Feminist’s Prospective Up until recently‚ women were never cast to play the strong leading role of the hero‚ but in recent pop-culture the male dominated movie industry has seen a sudden shift. These days women are being cast in a new light. There are women playing the hero and their male counterparts have found themselves playing the damsel in distress. In the recent blockbuster‚ Hunger Games‚ based on a novel by Susan Collins‚ is about a young girl named “Katniss”.
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The question of agency is one which is particularly loaded‚ not because its definition lacks of clarity‚ but rather because it is not a notion which can be simplified into arguing whether or not a character has agency. More often than not‚ a character is not entirely free to make whatever decision and act however they see fit‚ nor are they wholly prohibited from doing such things. Usually‚ they are free to act within the restriction imposed onto them by their society‚ and so the question shifts from
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Character Analysis Elise Beer Design for the Stage 3/16/2015 Puck: Puck is the jester to Oberon‚ king of the fairies‚ and is mischievous. He finds great joy in playing tricks on the other characters‚ which adds an element of humor to the play. Puck likes to goof around but also gets things things done‚ for example when he goes to get the love juice for Oberon. It is then when Puck mistakenly put the potion into Lysander’s eyes and sets in motion the plot of the play. In the end we all realize how
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when people commit adultery. In this novel set in a seventeenth century Puritan town‚ Hester Prynne‚ is a young woman who executes adultery with the town’s minister‚ Arthur Dimmesdale. In effect of doing this‚ Prynne suffers more than any other character in the novel. Prynne is seized for committing a sin which was intolerable during the Puritan times. She must undergo extreme punishment‚ including serving months in prison‚ and having to stand upon the scaffold and withstand immense public scrutiny
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run wildly in the direction of the voice‚ heedless of danger‚ ripping through vines and branches‚ through anything that keeps me from reaching her. From reaching my little sister.””(The Hunger Games). Katniss Everdeen‚ a fictional character‚ is a pillar of strength throughout Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games‚ published in 2008. The heroine of the book‚ shows that you don’t need supernatural powers to be a hero. Her selflessness‚ bravery‚ and skillful demeanor help her survive in a broken world of injustice
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commanders‚ they don’t rule over forty other kids‚ it’s more than anybody can take and not get crazy" (Card‚ 8.134). This shows the immense pressure put on children to behave more like adults throughout Ender’s Game. Ender’s Game has an action pact plot that focuses on the main character‚ Ender‚ maturing into a commander to save the human race. The story starts out with young boy named Ender‚ who is very intelligent in a school with regular kids‚ being monitored by the International Fleet so that
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created Facebook in 2004‚ he didn’t know that it was going to become the most popular social networking site in the world. Facebook is a very popular social networking site‚ that is used by many people around the world. You can use Facebook to communicate with your friends and family. Although people may think that Facebook is fun because of communication‚ it is actually dangerous and causes many problems. Facebook is dangerous to our society. On Facebook people can invade your privacy‚ create fake
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Alyssa Ross Tyler English 10 June 4‚ 2014 Ender’s Game In the book Ender’s Game‚ Card creates this world of kids saving the world. He takes you into an imaginary world‚ were he makes you think of what would happen if we counted on a child to protect us from the enemy. Ender’s Game is named for the main character‚ Ender. Card tells us that Ender must prove his worthiness by fighting. Ender must save the world‚ this is his game. More sentences here… Card uses the hero‚ Ender‚ to prove that certain
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Character Analysis In Runaway Girl by Carissa Phelps the reader knows from the beginning that the main character‚ Carissa‚ can’t stand discipline and runs away when authority steps in her way. Nevertheless‚ she creates friendships with people she thinks she can trust‚ but only ends up getting hurt by their dishonesty and greediness. Carissa is a rebellious‚ stubborn‚ independent child who grows into something amazing after all the dramatic tragedies that took part in her life. Carissa is
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Burns 1 Warren Burns March 8‚ 2013 Mrs. Miller Character Analysis The story that I chose to do my character analysis was Everyday use and the character that was chose was Dee. She was the jealous and confrontational one among her family members‚ while as an individual she searches for special meaning and a stronger sense of self. Dee’s judgmental nature has affected Mama and Maggie‚ and desire for Dee’s approval runs deep in both of them—it even appears in Mama’s daydreams about a televised
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