Published in 2008 The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins quickly rose through the ranks and has become one of the most influential and best selling books of the late 2000’s. Based in a post-apocalyptic United States‚ The Hunger Games tells the story of the young heroine Katniss Everdeen and her journey of survival in both the harsh conditions of her coal mining home in District 12‚ and the later dangerous climate of the Capitol and the hunger games. Survival is one of the major reoccurring themes that
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The last reason The Hunger Games is a dystopian novel is free speech isn’t given. Katniss said‚ “ When I was younger‚ I scared my mother to death‚ the things I would blurt out about District 12 about the people who ruled our country Panem...I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.” Katniss’s mother must have known of something that happened previously to someone that spoke badly about the Capitol. This is the reason
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“End hunger‚ achieve food security and improved nutrition‚ and promote sustainable agriculture” (The New York Times 1). This is one of the seventeen Global Goals and it targets one of the initial struggles being faced by nearly every country/nation‚ in some way on some level. Although the many countries faced with hunger and starvation fall under the inferred notion of having no food as the cause of their deprivation‚ this is not the case. In fact‚ they do have foods‚ but it is the lack of other
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you don’t want to do something‚ you expect them to just understand and walk away. Even though I had been asked multiple times if I had read “The Hunger Games” the answer was still no. And then I continued on saying that I didn’t want to read it...ever. It had become too popular and I just wasn’t interested in joining the great phenomenon that was “The Hunger Games.” I didn’t see the point. That was my stubborn attitude about the subject until my eleventh birthday when I received a gift I wasn’t expecting
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Jessica Dr. Niechayev English literature p.3 23 April 2013 Hope According to the article‚ Hope and the Hunger Games (April 12‚ 2012)‚ the authors Jordan Ballor and Todd Steen believe hope in Panem only comes from inside the people themselves. I agree with their argument about the residents of Panem. Peeta was a major part of bringing forth hope in the Hunger Games. I believe Peeta shared his bread out of genuine love‚ however‚ later in the story he did an act of kindness out of self-preservation
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people‚ or someone getting arrested for no reason can spark a revolution. Likewise‚ we see these same things with the revolution in The Hunger Games. There are several events that occur in The Hunger Games that lead to the revolution. One event that led to the revolution was the death of an innocent little girl named Rue. Katniss and Rue were both fighting in The Hunger Games. Rue and Katniss formed a very tight bond during the games. Rue actually helped Katniss get out of a tight spot by her signaling
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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins has a main Capitol where everyone lives and it is very fancy. For them to live like that there are 12 Districts which are responsible for providing the Capitol with different resources‚ such as coal and food. The people in the districts live really horrible lives. When they try to stand up for themselves the government squashes them like a bug. They create a game for the capital’s entertainment and also to punish the people for trying to rebel. The Hunger Games
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Author’s craft is used alot in books and novels but in the book Hunger Games by ‘Suzanne Collins‚’ she uses a lot of different author’s craft. There is a lot of foreshadowing‚ symbolism‚and cliffhangers just to name a couple. There were a few that stood out among the others when reading Hunger Games. The reader may notice point of view‚ mood‚ dialogue‚and flashback they are all used quite frequently in the book likely the main ones in the book. The first one that will be discussed is point
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world into a new ice age; a boy in a jewish concentration camp makes a friend and they try to find his father so that they could escape. All of them have to fight for their life. A girl named Katniss Everdeen is sent to a 75th anniversary of “The Hunger Games.” She has to survive in order to be back with her family and see her sister‚ Primrose. The game consists of two people from each district‚ and they all have to kill each other. Although only one can survive there are people who team up and kill
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understand both main characters you first have to understand that strength is in everyone‚ but it’s up to you to use it to your advantage. In the books‚ The Hunger Game and Divergent‚ they had to accomplish strength otherwise there weaknesses are going to overcome them. Both Katniss and Tris had to deal with different types of societies. In The Hunger Games their society was split into 12 Districts that were all under the power of one evil dictator known by the name of President Snow. In Divergent there
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