House on Inez Street Edward Sanders Dedictaed to the person I used to be. 1.) Tug Of War • 4 2.) Starry Eyed • 6 3.) Home • 8 4.) Quiet • 10 5.) Obsessions • 12 6.) Your Biggest Mistake • 14 7.) Lights • 16 8.) The Writer • 18 9.) Forgot to Laugh • 20 10.) State of Dreaming • 22 11.) Atlantis • 24 12.) Heavy Rope •26 Tug Of War Before we moved to the house on Inez st. we lived in a house in Garnet st. I have never been good at rememebring
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Hope; something that people believe in. Throughout the short story by Shirley Jackson "The Lottery" and in the movie "The Hunger Games" these people have one thing; hope. They live with a government that controls everything; dictatorship. In the short story "The Lottery" is about two higher class people are the leaders of the village and need to limit the population by killing off their villagers. The Lottery‚ Jackson shows how positions of power are important to the characters that possess them
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A Reflection on the Issue of Conflict Mahatma Gandhi once said‚ “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” By this‚ he meant that conflict cannot resolve an issue without causing more issues‚ thus resulting in more conflict. Now‚ conflict‚ by its dictionary definition‚ may be described by the following: to come into collision or disagreement; to be contradictory‚ at variance‚ or in opposition. Different people may see conflict as either being good or bad. An individual who supports
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Katniss Everdeen was a sixteen year old girl that lived with her mother and her little sister Prim in District 12. Katniss’s family depended on her to hunt for food ever since her father died in a mine explosion when she was only eleven years old. At the reaping‚ the mayor gave a speech about how the government in North America fell and the country of Panem took over. There was a war between the Capitol and the districts‚ and the Capitol won. To remind the districts not to rebel‚ the Capitol
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Katniss Everdeen being the protagonist is a strong independent girl who is determined to provide for her family. Katniss decides to protect her sister and volunteers to take Prim’s place in The Hunger Games. In the film she states “ I volunteer! “I volunteer as tribe!”. Katniss embraces courage since she takes her sister’s place. In one of the scenes she needed to take courage when she had to face Cato at the lake. She was frightened since Cato is a strong competitor in the games. She had to also
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One important event in the novel “The Hunger Games” by Suzanna Collins is the reaping. The reasons that this was an important event were that it was a key event in the story‚ it was a key moment in the relationship between Peeta and Katniss and is helped me to understand some of the important ideas in the novel such as sacrifice and power and control. The reaping in my opinion is one of the most significant and important events in this story. The reaping is where the whole plot of the story begins
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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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The Hunger Games has become a major obsession of mine‚ and no the title has nothing to do with food. Reading and anticipating The Hunger Games trilogy and its upcoming movie is‚ during which my grandmother was sick‚ something I clung too. You see I have never been a major fan of anything. I mean Taylor Swift is an idol of mine but I’m not running to the nearest store to buy her CDs or items. But this fan base love for the book and movie almost drove my family insane. After reading and discovering
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The Hunger Games Who has more perseverance in a literacy book‚ or novel? Remember that perseverance mean that you stay strong no matter how difficult it is‚ you to strive to finish it. Katniss Everdeen demonstrates a lot of perseverance in the hunger games. Katniss had volunteer in the place for her sister Prim when she had been called out to the games. Katniss knew her sister wouldn’t survive out in the forest. So Katniss had to volunteer in prims spot. She had to face death on her
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The Hunger Games The Hunger Games follow the story of Katniss Everdeen of district 12 in a post civil war society presumed to be a very futuristic yet abstract society known as Panem. Every year in this society there is a competition amongst the 12 districts called the hunger games‚ where two tributes; one boy and one girl‚ from each district are selected in a random drawing‚ to compete in a fight to the death as a way of punishing the districts for the rebellion that happened long in the past
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