The 2012 movie “The Hunger Games” is a fireball of a movie‚ in which the main character was based on Athena the Greek goddess. As Katniss is the modern day version‚ their story isn’t exactly the same. Athena got praised‚ while Katniss got challenged to keep her life. As Katniss Everdeen was in “The Hunger Games‚” Athena was also known as independent‚ determined‚ and most of all wise. Athena was very much independent. As many men desired her‚ she stayed a virgin and did not seek to marry (Greek 2014)
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outside the boundaries their gender? In today’s society the answer is "no" and most people see it as unacceptable act. In The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins‚ Katniss must endure a brutal competition where the last kid standing wins. Throughout The Hunger Games several characters such as Katniss and Peeta Mellark both reinforce and undermine gender roles. However The Hunger Games as a whole presents an argument against gender expectations. When people act as we say "weird" it is because they did
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1. What abilities made it possible for Katniss to survive the Hunger Games? The abilities Katniss had to survive the hunger games were been able to hunt for her food with her archery skills. Knowledge from her father teaching her about the good and bad plants to eat. Knowing how to climb trees for hiding/sleep protection. She had good strategy’s with been alert to what was actually going on around her and a logical thinker for ways to get her opponents out the game without actually having to kill
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In The Hunger Games Katniss Everdeen‚ played by Jennifer Lawrence‚ and the other rebels must go against everything they have been forced to do their whole lives to take back Panem from President Snow (Larence‚2012). Katniss‚ Peeta‚ Gale‚ all thirteen districts‚ and the Capitol are all affected by social influences in different ways. Social influence is made up of three main parts‚ conformity‚ compliance‚ and obedience (Kassin‚ Fein‚ Markus‚ 2014‚ pg. 255). Throughout the movie‚ all of the characters
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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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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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