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    Mikyla Pene-Bavastro The movie ‘The Hunger Games’ directed by Gary Ross is an extraordinary fictional tale. A tale set in a futuristic dystopia society called ‘Panem’. This nation is divided into 12 districts and a capitol. Every year each district must offer two tributes a male and a female that must fight to the death until there is one remaining tribute out of twenty-four‚ who later becomes a victor. An interesting character in the film is Katniss Everdene‚ the films heroine. A District 12

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    Forbidden Rebellion How is it possible that one force can rule over a group more than double its size? In Suzanne Collins’ novel‚ The Hunger Games‚ there are 12 districts of many people ruled by one force known as The Capitol. The country is run is a Marxist manner: The Capitol serves as the bourgeoisie of Panem‚ and the districts serve as the proletariat. The Capitol controls every move the districts make‚ punishes every act of rebellion‚ and kills off innocent people just to show their power

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    Summary: Chapter 1 Katniss Everdeen‚ who tells her story in the first person‚ wakes up. It is the day of the reaping. She sees her little sister‚ Prim (short for Primrose)‚ asleep in bed with their mother across the room. Katniss puts on her clothes to go hunting. The area where she and her family live is called the Seam‚ and it’s part of District 12. They are at the edge of the district‚ which is enclosed by a high fence‚ and Katniss often crawls under the fence and enters the woods outside‚ where

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    The Power in Appearance In the novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins‚ the main character Katniss‚ is influenced not only be her personal wants and needs but also by the emotions of the people watching her. By carefully controlling the things she says and does‚ Katniss aims to present herself to the audience the way she wants them to percieve her. She aims to appear in love with Peeta in order to capture the hearts of the audience and the capital. She shows that she is smart and skilled in

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    Book essay Publisher: Scholastic Publication date: September 14th‚ 2008 Pages: 374 Genre: Adventure‚ love‚ science fiction‚ Alternative history The hunger games (2008) written by Suzanna Collins are a young-adult novel. The story takes place in Panem‚ which was composed by 13 districts before the government of the capitol completely destroyed the whole ruble district 13. The purpose of this act was to show its ultimate power to the rest of the 12 districts. The story also describes the bloody

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    she thinks will help her succeed in the Games. However‚ through the adventure‚ Katniss is forced to question both her identity as a "girl from the Seam" and her stoic detachment. In terms of the former‚ her relationship with Peeta‚ a boy from the merchant class‚ and her attraction to the luxury of the Capitol make her question whether she might belong somewhere different. And as she grows more and more indignant as she observes the brutality of the Games‚ she is forced to make many ethical decisions

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    The Hunger Games The first thing I noticed was that the book was being told from Katniss’s perspective‚ while the movie was told from many different perspectives. Also‚ in the book the Mocking Jay pin was given to Katniss by Madge before she went to the capital‚ and then Katniss gave the Mocking Jay pin to Prim. In the movie Katniss got the Mocking Jay pin from the black market‚ and then gives the Mocking Jay pin to Prim. Another thing I noticed was that Madge‚ the girl that gave Katniss the

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    Books help in teaching about dystopian societies and how to prevent it from happening to our world. The Hunger Games‚ by Suzanne Collins‚ is a dystopian themed novel that shows all aspects of a dystopian society and the struggles to survive. “Our part of District 12‚ nicknamed the Seam‚ is usually crawling with coal miners heading out to the morning shift at this hour. Men and women with hunched shoulders‚ swollen knuckles‚ many who have long since stopped trying to scrub the coal dust out of their

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    A common theme that was portrayed throughout the hunger games‚ both book and movie adaption‚ was survival. This is a consistent theme that we see pop up throughout the entirety of both versions. When we start out in district 12‚ we see how survival plays a part in the people who live there. The majority of their population is poverty and they obviously have a hard time even putting food on their tables. Along with that‚ they have the reaping in which the children have to hope and pray their name

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    ‘May the odds be ever in your favour”! When Effie Trinket pronounces these critical words‚ she is saying what is the catchphrase of the Hunger Games. The ironic part of this is quite obvious. Can we even talk about favour‚ or luck‚ when we see how people live in these districts and how the Capitol plays around them. So the question is if a rebellion of the people of Panem could be possible or even be necessary. The people of Panem live in deep misery. They suffer of bad conditions like starvation

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