Mikyla Pene-Bavastro The movie ‘The Hunger Games’ directed by Gary Ross is an extraordinary fictional tale. A tale set in a futuristic dystopia society called ‘Panem’. This nation is divided into 12 districts and a capitol. Every year each district must offer two tributes a male and a female that must fight to the death until there is one remaining tribute out of twenty-four‚ who later becomes a victor. An interesting character in the film is Katniss Everdene‚ the films heroine. A District 12
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Summary: Chapter 1 Katniss Everdeen‚ who tells her story in the first person‚ wakes up. It is the day of the reaping. She sees her little sister‚ Prim (short for Primrose)‚ asleep in bed with their mother across the room. Katniss puts on her clothes to go hunting. The area where she and her family live is called the Seam‚ and it’s part of District 12. They are at the edge of the district‚ which is enclosed by a high fence‚ and Katniss often crawls under the fence and enters the woods outside‚ where
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The Power in Appearance In the novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins‚ the main character Katniss‚ is influenced not only be her personal wants and needs but also by the emotions of the people watching her. By carefully controlling the things she says and does‚ Katniss aims to present herself to the audience the way she wants them to percieve her. She aims to appear in love with Peeta in order to capture the hearts of the audience and the capital. She shows that she is smart and skilled in
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she thinks will help her succeed in the Games. However‚ through the adventure‚ Katniss is forced to question both her identity as a "girl from the Seam" and her stoic detachment. In terms of the former‚ her relationship with Peeta‚ a boy from the merchant class‚ and her attraction to the luxury of the Capitol make her question whether she might belong somewhere different. And as she grows more and more indignant as she observes the brutality of the Games‚ she is forced to make many ethical decisions
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Modernistic literature is the expression of the modern era (1901-45). It tends to revolve around themes of individuality‚ the randomness of life‚ mistrust of government and religion and the disbelief in absolute truth. Literature scholars classify the years from 1900 to about 1965 as the Modernist period. During this period‚ society at every level underwent profound changes. War and industrialization seemed to devalue the individual. Global communication made the world a smaller place. The pace
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The Hunger Games The first thing I noticed was that the book was being told from Katniss’s perspective‚ while the movie was told from many different perspectives. Also‚ in the book the Mocking Jay pin was given to Katniss by Madge before she went to the capital‚ and then Katniss gave the Mocking Jay pin to Prim. In the movie Katniss got the Mocking Jay pin from the black market‚ and then gives the Mocking Jay pin to Prim. Another thing I noticed was that Madge‚ the girl that gave Katniss the
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MODERNİSM Modernism first emerged in the early twentieth century‚ and by the 1920s‚ the prominent figures of the movement – Le Corbusier‚ Walter Gropius‚ and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - had established their reputations. However it was not until after the Second World War that it gained mass popularity‚ after modernist planning was implemented as a solution to the previous failure of architecture and design to meet basic social needs. During the 1930s as much as 15% of the urban populations were
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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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this extract understand modernism? Support your response with a direct quote from the text. Modernism can be described as a movement that has been took place in late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This essay will discuss how the author understand modernism by‚ explaining how modernism eventuated to the integration of mankind and the way that it can jeopardize past traditions and create new ideas. Firstly‚ it can be mentioned that one of the outcomes of modernism is the destruction of limits
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the speaker’s anxiety and frustration. Dylan Thomas’ “Fern Hill” is not as despairing as other works‚ however it does use a free verse scheme whose light beat compliments the speaker’s memories of childhood innocence. Another defining aspect of Modernism is the fall from innocence‚ meaning mankind has fallen into corruption‚ evil‚ and immorality largely as a result from the wars (particularly World War I and the Spanish Revolution) that destroyed much of Europe and witnessed despicable acts of violence
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