issues within our reality‚ through a fictitious and imaginative medium. Collins’ exceedingly popular science fiction The Hunger Games follows the gripping journey of sixteen-year-old protagonist‚ Katniss Everdeen‚ living in the post-apocalyptic nation of Panem. In order to protect her sister Primrose‚ Katniss volunteers her participation in an annual televised ‘battle to the death’ tournament‚ known as the Hunger Games. Selected via lottery‚ one boy and one girl‚ aged between twelve and eighteen‚ from
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absent from a page or two. It became so interesting that before I could finish the book‚ I had to turn to the internet to look up the characters of the movie. I just had to see them in the flesh! My favorite character for most of the story was Katniss Everdeen‚ the beautiful‚ spirited tomboy. I could really relate to her like I could no other character in the book. I admired her for taking care of her little sister and especially her mother. I too‚ had to be the parent child in my household when
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has been pointed out that imagination has no limitations and special effects‚ so things that sound really good in books sometimes look quite ridiculous in movies. However‚ imagination is limited by the sense of reality. For example in the novel‚ Katniss says‚ “A few hours later‚ I am dressed in what will either be the most sensational or the deadliest costume in the opening ceremonies. I’m in a simple black unitard that covers me from ankle to neck. Shiny leather boots lace up to my knees. But it’s
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You’re walking home and you notice the color of the sky‚ gradually getting darker. You pick up your pace and slowly bring your wrist watch up to your face‚ dreading the result. To your horror‚ it is 8:54 PM and you are still 10 minutes away from your home. You quicken your pace‚ remembering the pain you felt when you were beaten last for staying out past curfew. You sprint home and keep your head low‚ the whole time in fear of being caught. This is is unfortunately‚ a life lived by many under strict
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Waking up from bed‚ we are introduced to our protagonist‚ sixteen year old Katniss Everdeen. She is a very caring‚ loving and sweet girl with a tough side to her. You can decipher this by the way she cares for her family and how she loves them deeply. She is confident and brave but can stubborn and sometimes cruel. This can be seen in the way she kills animals without a flinch and when she constantly breaks rules and questions authority. She holds skills in hunting and surviving and isn’t afraid
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circumstances. The main characters of these stories‚ Hunger Games ’ Katniss Everdeen and 1984 ’s Winston Smith live in similar totalitarian societies where every move they make or thought they have is controlled by an all-powerful government. Although they are very different types of people‚ they have in common a streak of rebelliousness toward the societies they live in. Both harbor hopes of rising up against it in some way. While Katniss ’ hopes center around her desire to provide a better life for
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At first sight‚ these two works have little things in common. The settings are very different one from another and the narratives depicted different times and also different historical contexts. Mary Rowlandson was a Puritan woman‚ wife and daughter of Puritans’ reverends‚ established in Lancaster‚ Massachusetts‚ in the colony called New England. The book entitled A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682) reports her captivity – with her children – by Indians during
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The Hunger Games detail the adventure of Katniss Everdeen‚ who is forced to engage in a fight-to-the-death tournament against other children. The novel takes place in Panem‚ a dystopia like country built on what was once North America. In a world of limited resources‚ the despotic government run by the Capitol keeps its citizens in line by separating them into Districts and reinforcing severe class separations. But their strongest tool to promote disunion and to discourage rebellion is the Hunger
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The hunger games is a science-fiction novel written by Suzanna Collins. It is written in first person perspective of a 16 year old girl called Katniss Everdeen. She lives in the dystopian‚ post-apocalyptic nation of Panem. Panem has a capitol which is the official government which exercises complete economic and political dominance over Panem. The key ideas within this story is the lack of social mobility (inequality between rich and poor)‚ survival under pressure and love/loyalty. The idea of a
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The Hunger Games & The Republic The Hunger Games is a book by Suzanne Collins‚ which is narrated by a sixteen year-old girl named Katniss Everdeen who lives in a dystopian post-apocalyptic nation of Panem in North America. The Capitol‚ a highly advanced metropolis‚ exercises political control over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games are an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in
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