1302 Essay #3 – Evaluation March 19‚ 2014 The Hunger Games "Prim!" The strangled cry comes out of my throat‚ and my muscles begin to move again. "Prim!" I don’t need to shove through the crowd. The other kids make way immediately allowing me a straight path to the stage. I reach her just as she is about to mount the steps. With one sweep of my arm‚ I push her behind me. "I volunteer!" I gasp. "I volunteer as tribute!" (2.5-6). “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins is a book filled with adventure
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The Hunger Games takes place in a nation known as Panem‚ established in North America after the destruction of the continent’s civilization by an unknown apocalyptic event. The nation consists of the wealthy Capitol and twelve surrounding‚ poorer districts united under the Capitol’s control. District 12‚ where the book begins‚ is located in the coal-rich region that was formerly known as Appalachia.[4] As punishment for a past rebellion against the Capitol‚ in which a 13th district was destroyed
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Periods 1-2 Book Talk: The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins What the book was about: The Hunger Games is a book taking place in the nation of Panem‚ the cruel‚ superficial capitol surrounded by twelve districts. To keep the districts in order‚ and to remind them how powerful they really are‚ the Capitol makes each district send a boy and girl to take part in the Hunger Games‚ a brutal‚ gory fight to the death live on television‚ made so each person
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it shapes them into fighters‚ when faced with life and death a person would do almost anything to assure survival. This is greatly demonstrated in the book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins when the main character Katniss Everdeen’s world is shifted upside down when her father dies and when she volunteers as tribute for the Hunger Games. After her father’s death the weight of the world was on Katniss’s shoulders‚ as she had to learn how to provide for‚ and keep her family alive. Her family consisted
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The Hunger Games The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins has many characteristics of a dystopian society. Propaganda is used throughout the book to control the citizens of society. The people of the twelve districts have their Information‚ independent thought‚ and freedom restricted. The type of dystopian control present is corporate control. Propaganda is use to control the citizens of society. “The real message is clear‚ ‘Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you
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Everdeen‚ protagonist from the “Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins‚ showing her anger to the gammakers who were ignoring her during her first training session. The story is set in a futuristic apocalypse in which the United States has been separated into 13 Districts‚ all of which struggle to survive under the harsh dictatorship of the Capitol (The government). Being supported by almost all the district 12 with an old rare gesture when she was picked up for the games & being ignored by the gamemakers
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kids for the sole purpose of you killing all the others? The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is about a girl‚ Katniss‚ takes her sisters place in the games. She goes in and fights for her life and ultimately succeeds and returns home. In the novel‚ The Hunger Games‚ themes of government control and love are discussed‚ and these themes are also present in our modern day world. One theme that really stands out throughout The Hunger Games is government control. In the novel‚ the Capitol controls everything
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September 27‚ 2014 Evaluation of the Hunger Games The movie‚ The Hunger Games‚ is based on the book by Suzanne Collins and was made into a movie in 2012. It is about a girl named Katniss Everdeen who lives in District Twelve. After bombings and wars‚ North America turned into a country called Panem. Panem was split up into thirteen districts‚ but when district thirteen rebelled‚ the Capitol created something called the Hunger Games. The Games are an annual event where two tributes from the
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The Hunger Games was an amazing book. It was amazing how Suzanne Collins imagination made up Panem‚ which is the future‚ ruins of North America and how it was divided up into twelve districts. I liked how each district as you got lower had less wealth but still was very important to the Capital. For example each district had its own specialty that benefited that Capitol‚ such as coal mining‚ agriculture‚ seafood‚ and other specialties. Some districts provide the Capitol with energy or material goods
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Over the long hot summer I read an interesting book written by Suzanne Collins called The Hunger Games. It is an inspirational book about a small district in the post-apocalyptic nation of Panem in North America. The Hunger Games is an annual lottery in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts are selected to compete in a live televised battle to the death. This is an underdog story of Katniss Everdeen who is from district 12 a coal-mining district that is the poorest
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