usually because of people or events that take place in their life. The four texts I have studied this year which use the theme of alienation are: “The hills” written by Patricia Grace‚ “Boy” directed by Taika Waititi‚ “The Hunger Games” written by Suzanne Collins‚ and “Ravens Gate” written by Anthony Horowitz. My first text‚ “The Hills” is about a teenage Maori boy who is treated unfairly by the police because he is black. Alienation is presented through the discrimination the boy is subjected to
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4 Aspects “The Hunger Games” In the film “The Hunger Games” directed by Gary Ross‚ and adapted from the novel of the same name by Suzanne Collins‚ I studied four different aspects of the film that help to improve the effects the film has on its audience. The first aspect of the film I studied was the contrast -created by both Collins and Ross- between the districts and the Capitol. Some examples of these contrasts include people feasting every night in the Capitol‚ while everyone starves in the
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Summer Reading Assignment 2012 A. Top Five Quotes 1. “’I volunteer!’ I gasp. ‘I volunteer as tribute!’” (22). This is the most important quote in the entire series. With these six words‚ Katniss Everdeen sets into motion the events of the entire Hunger Games trilogy. Katniss shouts these words out at the very beginning of Chapter 2; almost immediately after a Capitol representative announces her little sister Prim’s name as a tribute in the 74th Hunger Games. Katniss volunteers to take Prim’s
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The main theme for “Ground Zero” by Suzanne Berne‚ is absence. After New York’s World Trade Center towers became destroyed in 2011‚ Berne felt like she needed to visit what people refer to as “ground zero.” Once she arrived‚ she noticed she was not the only person drawn to the site. Furthermore‚ since she was one of those who saw the disaster from televisions‚ and newspapers‚ she remained determined to find a way to better understand the emptiness she was looking at. She decided to ask people for
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The hero’s journey has been used for many centuries and has even been used in Homer’s epic The Odyssey. Like Homer‚ Suzanne Collins accurately portrays the process of the hero’s journey within The Hunger Games series. Starting with the beginning of the hero’s journey‚ the ordinary world is the first stage in the hero’s journey where the hero/heroine is in their normal life. In The Hunger Games‚ this is the beginning of the book when Katniss‚ the heroine‚ is going through her normal day‚ hence her
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Cited: Collins‚ Suzanne. Catching Fire. New York: Scholastic Press‚ 2009. Print.
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The book The Hunger Games takes place in the U.S many years after a war that put the world in total chaos. The last semblance of civilization is the capital Panem‚ and its 13 surrounding districts. Rebellions started to erupt through the districts to overthrow the capitals rule‚ but in the end it lasted in the defeat for the rebellion. As punishment for the rebellion‚ the capital has an annual competition named “The hunger games” where every year one boy and girl less than 19 years old from each
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Ally Yelton Mrs. LaGrange Senior Composition 5 October 2012 “Ground Zero” “Ground zero is a great bowl of light‚ an emptiness that seems weirdly spacious and grand‚ like a vast plaza amid the dense tangle of streets in lower Manhattan” (159). This is the feeling the speaker gets when she sees the World Trade Center site for the first time after the attacks on ground zero. The day on which the speaker went was a cold‚ damp March morning on the corner of Vesey and Church Streets (158). At
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Introduction Suzanne Collins was writing for children long before her popular Hunger Games trilogy took the literary world by storm. However‚ she was writing for a different age group and a different genre‚ having started her literary career as a writer for children’s television shows. She wrote for several popular children’s television shows‚ including Little Bear‚ Oswald‚ Wow Wow Wubbzy‚ Clifford’s Puppy Days‚ and Clarissa Explains it All. She ventured into children’s books after a meeting with
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situations‚ however they are often heavily influenced by the people their with‚ their country‚ and the mainstream way of thinking of the time. Some examples that prove this‚ are world events like World War II and the books like The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. In both of these situations or events‚ each individual has their different opinions‚ but each individual in each different district or country have similar opinions due to the influences of their community. World War II is a very controversial
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