Character Analysis of Katniss Everdeen‚ The Hunger Games. Katniss Everdeen is a 16-year-old girl who lives in a poor coal-mining region called District 12‚ in the country of Panem. She volunteers for herself instead of her younger sister to participate in the potentially deadly annual Hunger Games. As her father was killed in an accident‚ Katniss has taken on the role of her family’s head of household. Katniss’s mother was unable to cope with the loss and is deeply depressed. Filling her father’s
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Title: The Hunger Games Author: Suzanne Collins * Characters: a) -Main Characters: Katniss Everdeen & Peeta Mellark -Secondary Characters: Gale‚ Primrose‚ Katniss’ Mother‚ Cato‚ Clove‚ Marvel‚ Glimmer‚ Foxface‚ Thresh‚ Rue‚ Haymitch & Effie b) Character Traits: -Katniss Everdeen: She is sixteen years old‚ and is portrayed as quiet‚ independent and fierce. Her looks are typical for someone from the Seam (the slums of District 12): long dark hair (which she wears in
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has always been‚ in my opinion‚ an extremely important trait of any society or civilization. Not only that‚ but I feel we humans create what civilized means and it is defined totally by what we truly think is right or wrong. In the stories The Hunger Games‚ The Lottery‚ and The Lady or the Tiger I feel The Lottery is most civilized because they’ve been doing their lottery for a long time‚ they truly think it’s a reasonable thing to do and everyone has a fair chance. In the small town The Lottery
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May 7th‚ 2012. Independent Study Unit: The Hunger Games vs. 1984 A Dystopian society is depicted as a vision of society in which conditions of life are miserable and characterized by poverty‚ oppression‚ war‚ violence‚ disease‚ pollution‚ and the abridgement of human rights – which all result in widespread unhappiness and suffering. The novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Michael Radford ’s film 1984 of George Orwell both incorporate such dystopian
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I am reading a book called the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. The main character is Katniss Everdeen. She is caring‚ kind and brave. She lives with her mother and her sister Prim. Katniss hunts with a guy named Gale. They are friends but they both have feelings more than just a friendship for each other. She lives in District twelve. There are districts because North America didn’t like President Snow’s rules. The country would fight him and bicker. So he called North America Panem. He divided
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1. What is the writer’s chosen essay option? How does the writer’s work make clear the prompt chosen by the writer? I read the Thesis and Body paragraph of Jennifer Vaden Rose. She has chosen to write about pop singer Rihanna and how she can be used as an example to show that woman can be successful in more than one career. She has written easy to read sentences that gets her point across without having to go back and read it again. It is also clear that she chose the first option since she
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The Hunger Games Analytic Text Response The Hunger Games Analytic Text Response I think the Hunger games depicts a horrendous dystopia because Suzanne Collins makes the Hunger Games as a child slaughter match. She makes the characters such as the Game Maker as a man who takes orders from a bigger man who is sick minded as he reminds the 12 districts that we can take your children no matter what and make them fight in the glorious Hunger Games. He also gives each District a speciality trade which
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The Hunger Games series is the perfect example of a dystopian society. After the United States fell apart Panem was created and that is where Hunger Games was started. North America is split into 12 Districts based on wealth and each District specializes own their own area. Any type of retaliation towards the Government‚ or known as the Capitol in the series‚ is not acceptable and punishment will most likely happen. Because of the lack of freedom of speech they have I think thats why The Hunger Games
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specified in AR 670-1 paragraph 1-8‚ which is the Army regulation that governs the soldier’s hair and grooming practices and/or accommodations because of religious practices. The requirement for hair grooming standard is important to maintain uniformity within a soldier population. Many hair styles are acceptable as long as they are very neat and conservative. Soldiers were given exceptions based on religious practices in accordance with Army Regulation 600-20 on and before to 1 January 1986 which
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In The Maze Runner‚ Thomas‚ the main character‚ is trying to escape a maze that is created by people who are controlling the maze to stop them from escaping. They have little to no power inside the maze and no access to the outside world. In The Hunger Games‚ Katniss has no privileges as a “citizen” in the districts and is put inside an arena to kill people as a show for the Capital‚ who is basically a dictatorship. The theme of dystopia is fairly similar in the fact that both characters begin in a
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