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 something
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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games is a dystopian novel that depicts what life would be like in future day America if a dictator was to be in power. The hunger games is a competition in where 24 tributes from the 12 districts of panem are forced to fight in an arena to the death until one sole remaining victor remains. That victor is crowned and then gets to live the rest of his or her life in peace and wealth in victor’s village. On the day of the 74th reaping‚ Katniss Everdeen
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Catching Fire is better than The Hunger Games in some key areas of storytelling‚ but it does not redeem this blockbuster trilogy of its principal flaw: its future is never fully believable. I suspect that‚ like Twilight fans‚ what appeals to the bulk of its fan base is not just the action-packed premise‚ but the love triangle at the heart of the tale‚ between put-upon teen heroine Katniss Everdeen‚ her Games partner Peeta Mellark (with whom she must put on a show of romantic feeling‚ though on his
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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 Katniss to cut down the Tracker
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The Hunger Games. Katniss Everdeen‚ the book’s ruthless heroine‚ learns a lot of life lessons throughout her first adventure. Peeta Mellark‚ the baker’s son‚ has developed a realization of how much power the Capitol really does have over the people of Panem. Even Gale Hawthorne‚ Katniss’ best friend and possible love interest‚ is used to putting his family before himself. The 74th Hunger Games allows these characters to open up and discover their purpose in life. Much of The Hunger Games is centered
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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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For a government to be successful it needs to inflict fear into everyone of its people. The capital did so by using the Hunger Games as a tool for fear‚ excommunicating each of the districts from each other‚ and reminding everyone how one district can be eliminated so easily. Therefore‚ a government cannot rule as efficiently if there is no fear in its people. If fear is not within the government’s people then a rebellion could easily be started. In the words of Niccolo Machiavelli “is it better
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50 First Dates The movie I’m writing my paper on is 50 First Dates. It’s about a guy named Henry trying to build a romantic relationship with a girl named Lucy. How they went through there ups and downs in forming that relationship. Henry at first was in to short-term attractions to the tourist and very disclosed. He was afraid of commitment because of what he went through in college. He would jump from one sexual attraction to another not think anything of it. While Lucy who had a mental disorder
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The Hunger Games really relates to real life at the moment because of the corrupt government. In the hunger games‚ the government puts everyone against each other by putting a boy and a girl from each district in a competition where they must fight to the death. It’s all symbolic on how the Capitol prevents the people from forming an alliance and rebelling; the Games keep “every district against the others” and fighting among themselves. The government today‚ is tearing apart our united nations by
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very easy because they both had a similar childhood and upbringings. They both came out on top with a lot of pride‚ toughness and perseverance and the willing to take care of others. Katniss Everdeen is a fictional character in the book The Hunger Games. She is 16 years old and lives in a district called Panem in the poorest part of town called‚ The Seam. She lives with her mother and younger sister. Her father passes away during a coal mining explosion when she was 11 years old. After that tragedy
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