Another main and highly loved archetype in the Hunger Games is the star-crossed lovers. Star-crossed lovers dates back to the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet created by William Shakespeare. Star-crossed lovers are two people who care deeply for each other; however‚ their love is doomed by the stars and they cannot be together. The star-crossed lovers in the Hunger Games is Gale Hawthorne and Katnisss Everdeen. Everyone loves the two destine to be together but something is always in the way. Gale and
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Have you ever had and idea of how to end some of the world’s problems? Hunger‚ poverty and crimes are a big part of our society today. There are thousands of people living in poverty and with hunger. Many people commit crimes as well. I will be sharing with you some of my ideas of how to end these kinds of issues. One way we can help the growing number of starving people would be a food bank. Every church could have a food bank and get canned goods and other goods donated by the members of the
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As I began reading the first chapter of ‘Hunger of Memory’‚ I noticed that the author‚ Richard Rodriguez‚ in a satisfied tone‚ defined his private family as alienated in a public society. A society in which intimacy has a very much different meaning than what he presumed. This notion was primarily based off linguistic differences that‚ from his point of view as a small child‚ build a pleasantly intimate bond that kept his family close. Very far distant from the un-intimate world. In the middle
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The book The Hunger Games takes place in the U.S many years after a war that put the world in total chaos. The last semblance of civilization is the capital Panem‚ and its 13 surrounding districts. Rebellions started to erupt through the districts to overthrow the capitals rule‚ but in the end it lasted in the defeat for the rebellion. As punishment for the rebellion‚ the capital has an annual competition named “The hunger games” where every year one boy and girl less than 19 years old from each
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The Hunger Games is a novel about the "haves" and the "have nots -that is‚ the people who have money and the people who have money and the people who dont. The capitol has many of it. while the capitol is weathier than other districts‚ some of the districts have advantages than others. For example they can train there own people to get read and do well int he Hunger Games- a competiton they see as a ay to gain glory and fame. How about the poor districts? Well‚ they dont have much of an advantage
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Summary: Chapter 1 Katniss Everdeen‚ who tells her story in the first person‚ wakes up. It is the day of the reaping. She sees her little sister‚ Prim (short for Primrose)‚ asleep in bed with their mother across the room. Katniss puts on her clothes to go hunting. The area where she and her family live is called the Seam‚ and it’s part of District 12. They are at the edge of the district‚ which is enclosed by a high fence‚ and Katniss often crawls under the fence and enters the woods outside‚ where
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Books help in teaching about dystopian societies and how to prevent it from happening to our world. The Hunger Games‚ by Suzanne Collins‚ is a dystopian themed novel that shows all aspects of a dystopian society and the struggles to survive. “Our part of District 12‚ nicknamed the Seam‚ is usually crawling with coal miners heading out to the morning shift at this hour. Men and women with hunched shoulders‚ swollen knuckles‚ many who have long since stopped trying to scrub the coal dust out of their
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The Hunger Games The first thing I noticed was that the book was being told from Katniss’s perspective‚ while the movie was told from many different perspectives. Also‚ in the book the Mocking Jay pin was given to Katniss by Madge before she went to the capital‚ and then Katniss gave the Mocking Jay pin to Prim. In the movie Katniss got the Mocking Jay pin from the black market‚ and then gives the Mocking Jay pin to Prim. Another thing I noticed was that Madge‚ the girl that gave Katniss the
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Mikyla Pene-Bavastro The movie ‘The Hunger Games’ directed by Gary Ross is an extraordinary fictional tale. A tale set in a futuristic dystopia society called ‘Panem’. This nation is divided into 12 districts and a capitol. Every year each district must offer two tributes a male and a female that must fight to the death until there is one remaining tribute out of twenty-four‚ who later becomes a victor. An interesting character in the film is Katniss Everdene‚ the films heroine. A District 12
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A common theme that was portrayed throughout the hunger games‚ both book and movie adaption‚ was survival. This is a consistent theme that we see pop up throughout the entirety of both versions. When we start out in district 12‚ we see how survival plays a part in the people who live there. The majority of their population is poverty and they obviously have a hard time even putting food on their tables. Along with that‚ they have the reaping in which the children have to hope and pray their name
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