Examining the Characteristics of Katniss Everdeen in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games In typical examples of literature‚ women are generally presented as dependent and weak‚ requiring the assistance of men to save them. However‚ in The Hunger Games‚ Suzanne Collins presents a female protagonist who breaks the stereotype of these women; Katniss Everdeen is an independent‚ logical‚ yet doubtful character. To begin with‚ Katniss is independent. Ever since her father died and her mother went through
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“How are women and girls represented in contemporary novels?” In Suzanne Collins contemporary novel‚ The Hunger Games‚ the author represents women and girls in a variety of ways. Suzanne Collins represents feminine qualities in women and girls in a negative way in her novel‚ The Hunger Game. Collins uses characterisation to depict feminine qualities as being a drawback. An example of this can be seen in her portrayal of Prim and her mother‚ who share similar traditional feminine qualities‚ “My
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times‚ but is it true? In “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell‚ “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson shows how complicated it is to make condition equal to everyone and how unfair life can be in many ways in a world that is no equal. According to “The Hunger Games”‚ the real world is marked by violence because violence becomes a part of their lives‚ and unless a loved one is in the game arena‚ the shock wears away. The people have become desensitized to violence
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response theory‚ describe your aesthetic and efferent response to each novel. Draw on your knowledge of past literary and life experiences to expand upon your responses. A couple of years ago my friends thirteen year old daughter had received The Hunger Games book as a gift and was so excited after reading it that she insisted that her mother read the book. My friend decided to read the book and she read it right through the night and explained the plot to me the next day. I was given the book and found
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Throughout The Hunger Games series‚ there is a huge shift in the main character Katniss Everdeen. In the first Hunger Games movie‚ it introduces Katniss‚ who grew up in district twelve‚ the poorest district out of all thirteen. She lived in a place where finding a piece of bread on the ground was like winning the lottery. Once Katniss started to train for the games‚ people started seeing how talented she is with a bow and arrow‚ and she started to understand that she has some power over others. By
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to rebuild the community‚ village and further more within the society. For example‚ as a character as more mature than the age sixteen from the Hunger Game by Suzanne Collins
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especially personal decisions. The hunger games are a constant reminder that the Capital has full control over their lives. To remind them to never rebel against the capital again‚ they randomly pick a girl and a boy to fight for their own lives. Katniss was forced to go back into the hunger games with no choice of her own. You can try your hardest to win this game but the capital has all control over the ending result because they make all the decisions of the games environment. Even though she was
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way they think and how they chose to act upon those thoughts. Katniss Everdeen the brave young woman that fights for her sister in the book‚ The Hunger Games‚ is much like our first lady‚ Michelle Obama. Michelle fights by her husband day in and day out for this country for the good of the people. Katniss strives tooth and nail in the hunger games to save her dystopian society and her younger sister. Katniss Everdeen‚ a courageous‚ beautiful and talented young women that could have the world
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Katniss Everdeen was born on the 8th of May in District 12. Katniss is sixteen years of age with straight black hair‚ olive skin‚ and gray eyes. She is thin and not very tall‚ but is strong for her size from hunting to feed her family. Her characteristics are the typical of the Seam (Panem) - the poorest area of District 12‚ where she resides. Panem is located on the continent once known as North America‚ which was destroyed in a global catastrophe. Panem is run by an all-powerful city called the
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In The Hunger Games‚ twenty four children are chosen to fight to the death until there is one last standing. Rue‚ a 12 year old girl‚ makes an alliance with the main character‚ Katniss‚ until her abrupt end where she is stabbed through her stomach‚ resulting in her
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