Kristen Smith ENC 1102 19 September 2013 Mini-Essay 1 The Thin Line Between Hope and Hopelessness Suzanne Collins ’ novel‚ The Hunger Games and George Orwell ’s 1984 both illustrate the theme that hope can remain alive even amid the most hopeless of 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
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The Hunger Games‚ by Suzanna Collins. The Hunger Games is a novel written about a futuristic society. This society is built of 12 Districts all controlled by a higher class‚ the Capitol. Every year the Capitol hosts The Hunger Games‚ where one boy and one girl from each district are selected to fight to the death. The young adults all are supposed to believe the Hunger Games are a privilege and told‚ “may the odds be ever in your favour”(Collins‚ 19). This is an annual tradition. Until the 74th game
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My two books for this comparison essay are “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson‚ and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. “The Lottery” is about the towns people drawing out slips of paper and seeing who gets the slip of paper with the black pencil dot; whereas The Hunger Games is about Katniss taking her sister’s place when she she’s called into the Hunger Games and trying to survive in the arena with Peeta in the Hunger Games. This book ends with Katniss and Peeta winning the Hunger Games and the two
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Joanna Hua Ms Royse Ap English 12-13-12 Gothic Essay Over the centuries‚ the American fascination for the grotesque and mysterious elements of Gothic literature never died off since its beginnings with Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto in 1764. The novel was a success; its creative usage of a remote and obscure setting‚ the supernatural and medieval motifs were found so attractive that its imitations began rapidly publishing across America. Very soon‚ the Gothic genre was an established
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way. In the book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins the reader is able to see similarities between Saranell being emotionally abandoned and Primrosee Everdeen being physically abandoned by her sister and mentally abandoned by her mother. As Katniss waits to board the train to the Capitol‚ she tells her mom to stay strong‚ if not for herself then for Prim. "You can’t clock out and leave prim on her own. There’s no me now to keep both of you alive"(Collins 35). Prim solely relies on Katniss for support
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Peeta. (Collins‚ the Hunger Games: Hunger Games‚ 69). Katniss and Peeta are forced to hold hands by Cinna. This shows that they aren’t allowed to do what they want. This act expands to all the tributes and they band together. It shows excessive government control because they are forced to hold hands. “By the time the anthem plays its final strains‚ all twenty-four of us stand in one unbroken line in what must be the first public show of unity among the districts since Dark Days.” (Collins‚ the Hunger
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Ay’Zaa Hanyard Eng. 111 – 70A K. Schlene 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
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views and strategies on how best to defeat the British Empire. On the one hand Eamon De Valera wanted open warfare and rebellion as he believed this to be the only way to be viewed as legitimate by the international community. On the other Michael Collins preferred to engage in guerrilla warfare‚ intelligence gathering and clandestine operations mimicking the Boers in South Africa. He felt that open warfare and rebellion would be consistently futile in the face of a vastly superior and powerful military
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The Hunger Games‚ Uglies and Futuristic Ideas Humankind has thought up of many different ways our future could be like. Some imagine robots and flying cars‚ while others think of freedom and peace. Although Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games and Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies seem to have nothing in common at first glance‚ their time setting is what makes them alike. Both taking place in a distant future‚ they both create an image of what the world could look like. However‚ robots and flying cars
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Have you ever judged someone by their appearance before you got to know them? It takes a person less than five-seconds to make an impression on someone‚ negative or positive. In Suzanne Collins novel‚ “The Hunger Games‚” first impressions are extremely important to make for the tributes because it could mean the difference between life and death. At the Opening Ceremony in the Capitol‚ Katniss’ outfit makes her stand out from the other Districts tributes with her unique fierce fire flames Because
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