The Lottery Conformity or Pure Selfishness “The opposite for courage is not cowardice‚ it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow”-Jim Hightower. Have you ever been in a situation to where you know a person or a group is doing something wrong‚ but you choose not to do anything about it? Have you ever done something wrong for so long that it suddenly became a lifestyle for you? Jackson’s story‚ “The Lottery”‚ when it comes to being in the wrong or not speaking up‚ reminds me
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Snow “When you disarm the people‚ you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence and both of these opinions generate hatred.” - Niccolo Machiavelli President Snow of the book Hunger Games is definitely of Machiavellian personality. He keeps his friends close‚ but his enemies closer. He forces innocent children to kill other children for entertainment. He keeps the people from the districts isolated from each other and always watched
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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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One important event in the novel “The Hunger Games” by Suzanna Collins is the reaping. The reasons that this was an important event were that it was a key event in the story‚ it was a key moment in the relationship between Peeta and Katniss and is helped me to understand some of the important ideas in the novel such as sacrifice and power and control. The reaping in my opinion is one of the most significant and important events in this story. The reaping is where the whole plot of the story begins
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to read for my second quarter government book was The Mocking Jay from the Hunger games series. The author of this book is Suzanne Collins. There is a lot that goes on in the story‚ involving many things in the war of her districts. It is causing a rebellion in the districts. Katniss takes stock of her new position as a rebel in District 13. Only three victors were saved from the arena from the last book from the Hunger games series; Beetee who is an old man from District 3‚ also known as Volts‚ Finnick who
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how thoughtful Saranell may be towards her mother‚ all she receives in return is a cold shoulder. Geneva‚ upon being gifted with the flowers‚ should be overcome with joy and delight instead of scoffing and looking the other way. In the book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins the reader is able to see similarities between Saranell being emotionally abandoned and Primrosee Everdeen being physically abandoned by her sister and mentally abandoned by her mother. As Katniss waits to board the train to
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1. Character : For the character I chose Katniss Everdeen from the books/ movie series of the Hunger Games. Katniss is my choice because she is the main character throught the series. It focuses mainly on the life of Katniss throughout the "Games". Katniss has green eyes and brown hair. She usually wears her hair braided down to the side. She specializes in Archery. 2. Protagonist: for the protagonist I pick Meredith Grey from the greys anatomy television series. Meredith is the main character of
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of District 12 again for the victory tour of all the districts. I’ve got to say I am not looking forward to it; still Gale refuses to hold a conversation with me and its driving me crazy. It’s as if he actually believes the charade I put on in The Games even though he knows for a fact it was all an act. Well I know that Peeta still believes it because I still haven’t told him it was all in the name of survival. Well I am going to go out to hunt for a while. Not that I need to but Gale now works full
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details‚ being too violent‚ and isn’t good for little kids. The book is a good book and I liked it but I didn’t like it as much as I did the first 2 books and this last book disappointed me. I was expecting some amazing ending to the series of the hunger games but I was let down from the things that happened in the book. Mocking jay is just a sad book that doesn’t even seem humane for the capitol to be doing to all of these different districts. In the book the parts that I like in the book are the
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every district before each Hunger Games. Yes. 5 - For the reaping Prim is selected but Katniss wants to volunteer because she’s good at hunting Chapter 2 Katniss saves Prim because she chose to volunteer for her little sister. Peeta shows himself to be a caring‚ intelligent‚ kind person. He is always thinking of others before himself‚ and
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