ENG 266 - 1001 Essay # 1: The Hunger Games April 3‚ 2013 In a story that has an underlying theme of class and poverty‚ The Hunger Games and their twelve districts can be compared to India’s caste system. Both are hierarchies based on social status. The districts in The Hunger Games include the Capitol being at the top of the chain‚ with districts one through twelve falling below in numerical order. Going down the order‚ each district gets more and more poor. Following along with that‚ the Indian
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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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source of inspiration. Suzanne Collins‚ the author of The Hunger Games‚ was heavily inspired by ancient Greek and Roman culture. Her characters‚ setting‚ and even parts of her storyline all have similar aspects to the Greek and Romans. Roman history and Greek stories helped shaped The Hunger Games into what it is today. Suzanne was heavily inspired by the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur as well as the famous Roman Gladiator Games. Elements from both can be seen throughout the story. In an
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The trend of dystopic young adult fiction is quite nauseating. The Hunger Games is a shameless inoculator‚ its anti-subversive‚ pseudo-dystopic‚ politically biased‚ and simplified world-building has inseminated the genre‚ producing more works of the same platitude. It’s strange to think that Suzanne Collins was actually attempting to write an important piece of social commentary‚ when the book was completely devoid anything thought-provoking. She failed to grasp the concept of a dystopia and instead
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History of The Hunger Games & Panem What we now know as North America wasn’t always known as North America. North America during post-apocalyptic times was known as Panem. Panem comes from a Latin phrase which means bread and circuses. The phrase was used to describe people or a person using entertainment to distract others from more important issues‚ which in this case would be problems in the districts. The leader of Panem used entertainment and the providing of food to get the residents
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The Lord of the Hunger Games It may come as a surprise that a novel taught in a tenth grade english class is strikingly similar to a currently popular book of the teenage population. A common theme relates William Golding’s classic novel‚ The Lord of the Flies‚ and the very popular teen heart-throb‚ The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. The unifying motif is the underlying savagery and desperation to live that stands out within each person when survival mode is activated. Peeta‚ the love interest
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Christian Ramirez 12/18/12 Hunger of Memory The Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez was a story about a Hispanic kid who went through a lot of changes throughout his childhood. This boy moves to California to live with his family and start his new life. He had never learned to speak or understand English‚ so you can only imagine how difficult a time he must have had. He tried to keep quiet his entire time in class so he didn’t humiliate or just flat out embarrass
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After reading the novel and watching the film of “The Hunger Games‚” several similarities and differences are obvious. The film and the novel mostly have several similarities. The similarities between the novel and the film tells the same storyline‚ which takes place at the same time. Another similarities between the novel and the film is the part where it shows or tell that Katniss volunteered as a tribute at the reaping to save Prim. Between the film and novel‚ they both mostly have similarities
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Macbeth by William Shakespeare and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins are two texts written centuries apart but with very similar ideologies on the concept of power. They both explore power and its use politically‚ through physical measures and in Macbeths case supernaturally. Exploration of themes such as power leading to corruptness and then on to revolt are also prominent in both texts. Protagonist Macbeth and antagonist President Snow head their respective totalitarian societies and used force
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please the crowd of their competitors. Like the Romans‚ the Hunger Games introduce the tributes with a parade of chariots‚ each with their own representation. The spectators were able to determine who they would cheer on to win. In The Hunger Games‚ this was a way to appease them for their support. Sponsors were then able to contribute to the tributes indirectly through contribution towards victory. Every little thing counts‚ from the Games to the supporters to the district tributes. Gladiators were
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