Dear Suzanne Collins‚ I admire your work on the book series The Hunger Games. I want to tell you that your books have changed the way I see the world today. The book made me feel very grateful. This also made me look at other countries and see how we‚ as Americans we are spoiled and live lavish lives for no reason really. This is what I know about The Hunger Games trilogy. The Hunger Games trilogy takes place in an unspecified future time‚ in the totalitarian nation of Panem. The country consists
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the Capitol most actively runs the Games‚ it could be argued that the entire society grants its support by refusing to boycott or challenge the ubiquitous Games. Katniss does note that law requires citizens to follow the Games‚ but throughout the book are indications of the population’s wild support. When Katniss volunteers to take Prim’s place‚ her district shows its dissent against the Games by refusing to applaud‚ which suggests that refusal to honor the Games is an option‚ even if it might carry
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The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a novel about 13 districts ruled by malicious capital. Many years before this story was set one of these districts caused an uprising‚ rebelling against the capital. The capital after a long hard battle finally managed to regain control of all the districts. Although only once obliterating the cause‚ district 13. The power house of all operations had become a pile of smoking rubble. Ever since then the capital hosts
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The Hunger Games Chapter 1 Dystopia is a community or society‚ usually fictional that is in some important way undesirable or frightening. This society is characterized by dehumanization‚ totalitarian governments and environmental disaster. Elements of dystopias may vary from environmental to political and social issues. Such societies appear in many works of fiction‚ mostly in stories set in a speculative future‚ one such story is The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. In the Hunger Games‚ Katniss
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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a dystopian novel written for young adults. Even though the main audience targeted‚ the book has struck chords with parents as well and has been a best seller since it came out. North America has been destroyed and is now run by the powerful Capitol and is divided into 12 districts‚ 13 was destroyed due to rebellion. In district 12 hunter Katniss Everdeen‚ a 16 year old girl‚ carves out a scrimpy existence for herself‚ her younger sister Prim and their widowed
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the book Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins‚ publicized in 2008. Hunger games is a book about a capital that makes their 12 districts each send a boy and girl to the games where they fight for their life‚ leaving one survivor. Katniss decides her and peeta should eat the poisonous berries thereby demonstrating determination so they won the hunger games but ended it with defying the capital. Katniss made the capital look weak‚ debilitated‚ and paralyze. After katniss won the
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When Peeta says that he wants to show that he’s “more than just a piece in their Games” (Collins‚ 142) he hints at a concept which completely escapes Katniss: that‚ much like different pieces in chess have different abilities‚ the tributes in the Hunger Games each have unique roles which they are meant to perform. After Peeta announces his alleged love for her‚ in order to calm her‚ Haymitch tells her that “Now [he]
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Sacrifices of The Hunger Games A sacrifice is a loss or something that is given up‚ usually for the sake of a better cause. Human sacrifice is the act of killing one or more human beings as a part of a religious ritual. Both of these types of sacrifice are portrayed in the novel The Hunger Games‚ by Suzanne Collins. The sacrifices made in The Hunger Games show that sometimes doing the right thing requires great risk or sacrifice. Throughout The Hunger Games‚ Katniss makes many sacrifices for
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The Huger Games The Hunger Games is a game‚ that occurs annually and it is set up by the ruling Capitol to show the other 12 districts of Panem that the Capitol owns them and that they are in-charge and it also serves as a merciless reminder to the price of rebellion against the Capitol. The hunger games consist of twenty-four teenagers‚ a male and a female from each twelve districts and they range in ages of twelve to eighteen. They are put in an arena‚ that differs every year and they have to
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The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins 2008 1. Suzanne Collins style in this novel is descriptive first person. Like most dystopian novels it also is written with an overall dark tone. It is depressing and descriptive. 2. “I understand how Peeta feels. I can’t stand the sight of the Capitol people myself. But making them deal with Haymitch might be a small form of revenge. So I’m pondering the reason why he insists on taking care of Haymitch and all of a sudden I think‚ It’s because he’s being
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