Character Analysis of Katniss Everdeen‚ The Hunger Games. Katniss Everdeen is a 16-year-old girl who lives in a poor coal-mining region called District 12‚ in the country of Panem. She volunteers for herself instead of her younger sister to participate in the potentially deadly annual Hunger Games. As her father was killed in an accident‚ Katniss has taken on the role of her family’s head of household. Katniss’s mother was unable to cope with the loss and is deeply depressed. Filling her father’s
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Title: The Hunger Games Author: Suzanne Collins * Characters: a) -Main Characters: Katniss Everdeen & Peeta Mellark -Secondary Characters: Gale‚ Primrose‚ Katniss’ Mother‚ Cato‚ Clove‚ Marvel‚ Glimmer‚ Foxface‚ Thresh‚ Rue‚ Haymitch & Effie b) Character Traits: -Katniss Everdeen: She is sixteen years old‚ and is portrayed as quiet‚ independent and fierce. Her looks are typical for someone from the Seam (the slums of District 12): long dark hair (which she wears in
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I am reading a book called the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. The main character is Katniss Everdeen. She is caring‚ kind and brave. She lives with her mother and her sister Prim. Katniss hunts with a guy named Gale. They are friends but they both have feelings more than just a friendship for each other. She lives in District twelve. There are districts because North America didn’t like President Snow’s rules. The country would fight him and bicker. So he called North America Panem. He divided
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The Hunger Games Analytic Text Response The Hunger Games Analytic Text Response I think the Hunger games depicts a horrendous dystopia because Suzanne Collins makes the Hunger Games as a child slaughter match. She makes the characters such as the Game Maker as a man who takes orders from a bigger man who is sick minded as he reminds the 12 districts that we can take your children no matter what and make them fight in the glorious Hunger Games. He also gives each District a speciality trade which
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The Hunger Games‚ written by Suzanne Collins‚ is a dystopian young adult novel published on 2008. The protagonist of the story‚ also the heroine‚ is the sixteen year old Katniss Everdeen. She comes from District 12‚ where coal is produced‚ and most people live in the state of poverty. Every year‚ two tributes are reaped from each district to compete in a sickening ‘celebration’‚ the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games has only one rule: to kill‚ or be killed. When Katniss’ sister was chosen as a tribute
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were being interviewed Peeta proposed to Katniss! Even worse Katniss said yes! I thought all of it was an act for the Games. Katniss said it was so why in the world would they be getting married now? The Games are over. Their strategy shouldn’t be needed anymore. Katniss can’t really be in love with Peeta can she? She couldn’t have lied to me that it was all an act during the Games. If they are actually going to get married it has to be an act. Katniss said it was an act and I believe her so it has
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The Hunger Games series is the perfect example of a dystopian society. After the United States fell apart Panem was created and that is where Hunger Games was started. North America is split into 12 Districts based on wealth and each District specializes own their own area. Any type of retaliation towards the Government‚ or known as the Capitol in the series‚ is not acceptable and punishment will most likely happen. Because of the lack of freedom of speech they have I think thats why The Hunger Games
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In The Maze Runner‚ Thomas‚ the main character‚ is trying to escape a maze that is created by people who are controlling the maze to stop them from escaping. They have little to no power inside the maze and no access to the outside world. In The Hunger Games‚ Katniss has no privileges as a “citizen” in the districts and is put inside an arena to kill people as a show for the Capital‚ who is basically a dictatorship. The theme of dystopia is fairly similar in the fact that both characters begin in a
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It’s not surprising that “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins contains many situations that cause the reader to step back and question the morality and ethical issues surrounding the entire story. Likewise‚ the main characters echo our own questions by asking themselves similar things when faced with moral dilemmas. A character that shows a strong ethical approach to the games is supporting character Peeta Mellark. What it takes to “win” the hunger games goes beyond just killing people. A person
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Maninder Kaur Professor Ybarra English 70 April 10‚ 2012 The Hunger Games Have you ever been taken away from your family and friends? Been forced into a game where to stay alive is the only way to win? The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is about sixteen year old Katniss Everdeen‚ who lives in the country of Panem from the far- off city called the Capitol. The Capitol divides in districts. It is harsh‚ cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one
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