“May the odds be ever in your favor.” This quote from the 2012 movie The Hunger games‚ not only applies to the modern story‚ but also to the 1950s book‚ Lord of the Flies. The movie and the book are similar in many different ways‚ such as the situation‚ the characters‚ and the overall message. In both the movie and the book‚ people live in fear everyday of their lives. In the movie the people from the districts live in fear from President Snow‚ the games‚ and each other. Kids between the age 12 and
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Creative Worlds “Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could realize that no utopia is possible” (Jack Carroll) The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins‚ Lord of the Flies by William Golding‚ and There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury are all dystopian stories. In The Hunger Games each year two children are picked from one of the twelve districts to fight to the death in The Hunger Games‚ to show that they can not rebel against the capital. They are forced to do this to show that they can not rebel
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The movie version of the hunger games tries to show a dystopian society in various ways‚ for example‚ costumes‚ Setting‚ Props‚ Lighting‚ makeup‚ the location where the movie was filmed and more. The directors used different styles of costumes to show a dystopian society. They played with colours of the costumes to express the character’s life. The cast who played the role of citizens living in district 12‚ were dressed in different shades of the colour gray‚ to show the audience that the districts
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the fittest was used in the seventeenth century to replace Darwin’s term natural selection‚ “to kill or be killed”. Although the term survival has various meanings‚ in reference to Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games‚ survival is used a verb to describe the act of surviving. Katniss enters the hunger games as a volunteer‚ and is expected to fight until death‚ and if she so happens to survive she and her family will go to live in Victor’s Village. As the story unfolded‚ Katniss speaks on her fathers
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In Franz Kafka’s "A Hunger Artist" and in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s " A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings‚" an understanding of the cruelty of mankind is revealed through an examination of the themes and the characters in both of their stories. Although these stories are both written in two different styles‚ there are a few common threads within them that make them interesting to compare. By comparing these two stories one is able to fully understand the struggles incurred by those individuals who
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and loosing family and friends until the end where a well planned murder with the entire character base give a grand final to this seven book series. However‚ Tartar gives the prize of absolute horrific monsters to Suzanne Collins‚ author of The Hunger Games. Collins has turned the child reading the book into the villain. Katniss Everdeen (protagonist) fights against 12-18 year old children‚ in a brutal battle for living. Opening her reader’s eyes into seeing children’s exposure to books about death
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Period: 3 I read the book Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins‚ this book is number two of the Hunger Games series. This book over all was pretty good and I think I’m going to read the 3rd. Before I start to give my reasons for the words I want to say why I used the colors I did. I used a black back ground because she is being thrown into this unknown world again when she really should be living a life of luxury but because she outsmarted the game makers this is what she gets. I used Red yellow and
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the present world. The Hunger Games is based on a depressing world which we would all hate to live in. Collins brings to our attention some of the problems we have in today’s world such as our obsession with looking perfect‚ how we waste our time‚ and how selfish we are. In our society we waste our time on video games‚ appearance‚ TV and computers while there are people who can barely survive and spend every minute of there day trying to keep their family alive. In the Hunger Games the capitol waste
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On Dystopian Societies A Report on our future world By Jeffrey Clemmons The girl scrambled for food through the thick wall of trash‚ the smell of mildew crossing her nose. She wore a tattered leather jacket and a pair of old jeans with shoes that people once called Chuck Taylors. She cursed when she didn’t find anything and turned back to her brother who was in the shopping cart looking hopefully at her. She sighed‚ “Nothing.” Her little brother sighs as well and she begins to push him in
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troubles. His lifestyle changed into becoming a man who lived in the moment. He also changed his life because he had to learn how to kill the animals and make use of all the meat given from the animal. In the movie The Hunger Games directed by Gary Ross‚ based of the book The Hunger Games written by Suzanne Collins change in lifestyle is a major part of the film and book. The tributes spend a great deal of time training for the games and to get a higher rating. Some have to learn to be strong and
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