The Hunger Games Susan Collins Copyright date: October 1‚ 2008 Genre: Science fiction The Hunger Games book review North America has been destroyed and is now run by the powerful Capital and is divided into 12 districts (district 13 has been destroyed due to a rebellion). In district 12 ace hunter Katniss Everdeen‚ a 16 year old girl‚ carves out a meager existence for herself‚ her younger sister Prim and their widowed mother. In order to keep the 12 districts aware of who runs the county‚
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The Hunger Games: Book Review The Hunger Games is a novel aimed at young adults first released in September 2008. It was first published in the United States of America. Suzanne Collins was the author of this amazing novel. She came up with the idea while channel surfing and watching real war footage and reality TV. It also came because of her dad’s involvement in the Vietnam War. It was then published by the group Scholastic‚ who have published many famous books such as the highly successful Harry
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Hero’s Journey. The Hero’s Journey has three main parts which are; Departure‚ Initiation‚ and Return. The Hunger Games written by Suzanne Collins is one of the many stories that follow this process. In this novel‚ Katniss Everdeen the story’s hero goes through the steps in a unique way‚ having to fight‚ kill and be hunted by kids of her own age and to fight to the death. In The Hunger Games Katniss goes through the Departure stage just as every other Hero does‚ but Katniss knows that the chance
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The Hunger Games is a novel written in 2008 by Suzanne Collins about a dystopian future of what was once known as North America‚ now known as "Panem". The totalitarian nation of Panem is divided between 12 districts and the Capitol. Each year two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to participate in The Hunger Games; Part entertainment‚ part brutal retribution for a past rebellion. The Capitol selects a boy and a girl between the ages of 12 and 18 from each of the twelve
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Hunger Games Book Talk Could you survive on your own and in the wild‚ with every one out there trying to make sure you don’t live to see the sunrise? I think I probably wouldn’t be able to survive in the wilderness‚ much less if people are trying hard to make sure I don’t survive until the next day. I am used to getting my food in the supermarket‚ already processed‚ and I’m sure I wouldn’t be able to hunt‚ kill or even build a fire. But Katniss Everdeen could. She is a 16 year-old who is
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4 Aspects “The Hunger Games” In the film “The Hunger Games” directed by Gary Ross‚ and adapted from the novel of the same name by Suzanne Collins‚ I studied four different aspects of the film that help to improve the effects the film has on its audience. The first aspect of the film I studied was the contrast -created by both Collins and Ross- between the districts and the Capitol. Some examples of these contrasts include people feasting every night in the Capitol‚ while everyone starves in the
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The Lord of the Hunger Games It may come as a surprise that a novel taught in a tenth grade english class is strikingly similar to a currently popular book of the teenage population. A common theme relates William Golding’s classic novel‚ The Lord of the Flies‚ and the very popular teen heart-throb‚ The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. The unifying motif is the underlying savagery and desperation to live that stands out within each person when survival mode is activated. Peeta‚ the love interest
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The Hunger Games The title of my book is called The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. This book is about a sixteen-year-old girl named Katniss Everdeen who takes her sister’s place in order to participate in the annual Hunger Games‚ where she fights to the death in an arena on live television. The only way to win is to be the last one living in the arena which brings fame and fortune‚ whereas losing brings certain death. What I liked the most about this book is the author’s style of writing that
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The hunger games is a great book by Suzanne Collins‚ about a city where each year 2 children from each district- a boy and a girl-were picked to fight to the death. This practice originated as a punishment to the districts for the rebellion against the capital seventy five years ago. But today it goes on only because of the cruelty of the privileged capital people‚ with the advantage of their children never having to fight. Ever since Katniss Everdeen’s father has died she took the responsibility
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Another main and highly loved archetype in the Hunger Games is the star-crossed lovers. Star-crossed lovers dates back to the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet created by William Shakespeare. Star-crossed lovers are two people who care deeply for each other; however‚ their love is doomed by the stars and they cannot be together. The star-crossed lovers in the Hunger Games is Gale Hawthorne and Katnisss Everdeen. Everyone loves the two destine to be together but something is always in the way. Gale and
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