Imagine being a teenager that has been forced to have the responsibility of protecting their whole family‚ but one day‚ their entire life gets altered into having to murder other children for survival; this is the fate of tributes of the Hunger Games. In The Hunger Games‚ Suzanne Collins illustrates a desolate world where survivors of the post-apocalyptic continent of Panem segregate into twelve separate districts and tasked with specific responsibilities of harvesting the Earth’s remaining natural resources
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if You Read The Hunger Games One of the most influential‚ albeit controversial‚ book series of 2008 is written by Suzanne Collins‚ an author who previously had been a children’s television writer. Collins‚ in her new series The Hunger Games‚ delves into the dark‚ questionable subject of child versus child combat. The heroine of the book‚ Katniss Everdeen‚ is someone to be admired and looked up to. Time and time again she makes the tough choices required of her. The Hunger Games also has an exciting
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The Hunger Games & The Republic The Hunger Games is a book by Suzanne Collins‚ which is narrated by a sixteen year-old girl named Katniss Everdeen who lives in a dystopian post-apocalyptic nation of Panem in North America. The Capitol‚ a highly advanced metropolis‚ exercises political control over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games are an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in
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Power in The Hunger Games Professor Kenneth Wong G15 Dorothy SIOK Li Phing LIU Zhe LIN Feng Ian Nicolette CHEN Lixin TAN Yan Zhen 1 1 Introduction 2 The Ethics of Power 2.1 How Power is Obtained and Maintained The Hunger Games is a dystopian
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bottom of the barrel. In The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and the movie Gattaca are both dystopian media. In tough times both the rich and poor come together to fight through what the government set out to say wouldn’t happen‚ in both medias. In both dystopian medias Hunger Games and Gattaca want a perfect world. They are both similar; both types of governments want to disclude the non-perfect race. People from Panam and Gattaca are nice‚ for example Cinna in Hunger Games and The Doctor in Gattaca;
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of the Hunger Games The book Hunger Games‚ written by Suzanne Collins‚ is a fictional story based in the future about an event in which cities (districts) participate annually by the coercion of the capitol. Two representatives‚ or tributes‚ are randomly selected each year to representative their district in this dreadful event. The plot is focused on a girl in her late-teens and her battles and struggles in the annual event‚ which is called the Hunger Games‚ or just the Games. The Hunger Games
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The Hunger Games‚ Uglies and Futuristic Ideas Humankind has thought up of many different ways our future could be like. Some imagine robots and flying cars‚ while others think of freedom and peace. Although Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games and Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies seem to have nothing in common at first glance‚ their time setting is what makes them alike. Both taking place in a distant future‚ they both create an image of what the world could look like. However‚ robots and flying cars
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outside the boundaries their gender? In today’s society the answer is "no" and most people see it as unacceptable act. In The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins‚ Katniss must endure a brutal competition where the last kid standing wins. Throughout The Hunger Games several characters such as Katniss and Peeta Mellark both reinforce and undermine gender roles. However The Hunger Games as a whole presents an argument against gender expectations. When people act as we say "weird" it is because they did something
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abilities made it possible for Katniss to survive the Hunger Games? The abilities Katniss had to survive the hunger games were been able to hunt for her food with her archery skills. Knowledge from her father teaching her about the good and bad plants to eat. Knowing how to climb trees for hiding/sleep protection. She had good strategy’s with been alert to what was actually going on around her and a logical thinker for ways to get her opponents out the game without actually having to kill them her self
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The first book of the Hunger Games is the spark that started the fire of love and rebellion. Katniss Everdeen‚ age 16‚ lives in District 12 with her sister‚ Primrose (Prim) Everdeen‚ age 12‚ and her mom‚ her father had died in a mining accident when she was young. Her best friend‚ Gale Hawthorne‚ age 18‚ was her hunting partner‚ together they helped provide food for each other’s family. During the reaping‚ which is a drawing performed by Effie Trinket‚ Katniss volunteers as tribute in replace of
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